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I'm interested as to why someone like yourself, a likely tech-savvy HN user, the kind of person who notices how their chats effect ad serving, does not block ad
by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm interested as to why someone like yourself, a likely tech-savvy HN user, the kind of person who notices how their chats effect ad serving, does not block ads on facebook. Care to share?
- pikachu_is_cool 10y agoThe ads are also embedded in the News Feed itself, in the form of "friend X likes Y page" and the like. I'd imagine it would require an ad blocker specifically designed for Facebook to block it. Same goes for the sidebar. I don't use Facebook enough to care; uBlock Origin suits my needs just fine.
- kobayashi 10y agoThe embedded ads in the News Feed can also be blocked by a extension like uBlock Origin. The additional filter is found from ABP, if I recall.
- pikachu_is_cool 10y agoGood to know, thanks.
- gcr 10y agoAdblocking wouldn't address any of the four points that pikachu_is_cool raised. For point 3, Facebook could still be analyzing the contents of messages.
- kobayashi 10y agoYah, I agree. But I'm still surprised that a adblocker/tracker blocker isn't used by that kind of individual.
- pikachu_is_cool 10y agoAn adblocker just treats the symptoms. I'd rather just not have the disease :)