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That data and content is (near) worthless if they can't serve up ads against it.
by supster 10y ago
That data and content is (near) worthless if they can't serve up ads against it.
- creshal 10y agoThat's facebook's problem, not the user's.
- untog 10y agoAnd Facebook is acting on that problem.
- fwn 10y agoI don't think that this was questioned here.
- omginternets 10y agoYou've got it exactly backwards. The service is free, ergo you are the product, ergo Facebook's problems are your problems. You have three choices: 1. Stop using Facebook 2. Pay Facebook to remove ads 3. Look at ads I've opted for option 1, though I'll happily revisit this choice if Facebook (A) finds a way to make money without serving ads and without requiring me to pay out-of-pocket (unlikely) or (B) Facebook starts serving ads I want to consume. (Welcome to native advertising.)
- FoeNyx 10y agoIs option 2 even possible at the moment?
- omginternets 10y agoNo -- admittedly I'm mixing hypotheticals with existing solutions, but the point remains valid.
- type0 10y ago> but the point remains valid. No it doesn't, exactly the point, you can't pay them so you have no transactional or business relation, in fact one SHOULD block the ads that are forced upon you. Linkedin for example prohibit adblocking in their TOS, they can do this because you can pay them to get rid of the ads.
- omginternets 10y agoThat wasn't the point. The point was that Facebook's problems are de facto the user's problems. Ad-blocking is, indeed, a solution, but one can't expect Facebook to (re)act in the user's interest.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoFacebook's problems, which are my problems, are solved by opting for choice #4: use an ad-blocker.
- omginternets 10y agoIndeed. An oversight on my part.
- eva1984 10y agoNow this seems going to end very shortly
- alkonaut 10y agoI'd happily pay for Facebook, but then it shouldn't just be ad-free, I'd also want to be fairly sure that my info isn't sold to third parties either (not my existing data at FB, nor new data collected after I became a paying customer).
- Karunamon 10y ago4. Use Facebook anyways, and render its markup on my computer and my internet connection as I see fit.