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Facebook is nothing without its users. If it starts to go down the aggressive route of ad promotion, even more people will leave. I haven't clicked an ad in ma

Facebook is nothing without its users. If it starts to go down the aggressive route of ad promotion, even more people will leave. I haven't clicked an ad in maybe 10 years and don't plan to either. The only ads I do click are on pages where I find the content extremely useful. Facebook is not one of those places.

erentz 8y ago
I don’t know anyone that clicks on ads. But apparently they’re still valuable somehow. It’s a mystery to me, but I guess even without clicks the chance to pollute someone’s mind with an ad in a website is still valuable to an advertiser in the same way that it is on a freeway billboard.
- deleted 8y ago
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- jimnotgym 8y ago
  Sometimes I click lots of ads deliberately to mess up the malgorithm, especially I click ads that are of no interest to me...What I never do is buy anything on the click through.
  - charlesism 8y ago
    +1 for teaching me the neologism 'malgorithm'
    - jimnotgym 8y ago
      Thanks to 'Private Eye' magazine
  - chillacy 8y ago
    Presumably why sophisticated advertisers track purchase completions through the pixel and then run ads with a goal of conversion instead of clicks.
  - Aromasin 8y ago
    There's a Firefox extension I often used before installing Pi-Hole that would do exactly this on every page. It was called AdNausium. Not sure if it's still a thing, but it was pretty great at obfuscation. By the end of using it I'm pretty sure Google thought I was a middle-aged woman with an obsession for patterned summer dresses. There were a few other ways I obfuscated data using this guide :- https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwin...
- snaky 8y ago
  "I don't know a single person who voted for Trump"
- leowoo91 8y ago
  Value might be in capturing how many second it stopped you from scrolling. That could be still acting without acting.
- ionised 8y ago
  I use ads to tell me which companies I should avoid. Oh what's this now, an advert for Coca Cola? How obnoxious. Guess what I will never ever be buying.
achenatx 8y ago
I have clicked on multiple ads 1) toys for kids during the christmas season. Dot/dash, marble runs, tinker crate, etc 2) Bought some bike stuff when it was onsale, solo bonfire and a few other interesting gadgets. Facebook ads are a little like sharper image. 3) got scammed for $200 when I bought an electric surfboard that ended up being a $20 boogie board from china. 4) periodically click interesting articles that are ads
- JohnFen 8y ago
  I would never click on an ad, even if it's for something I actually want. Clicking on an ad sends a strong signal (and exposes too much data) to the ad-slingers, and the less data that I give the ad-slingers, the better off I am.

erentz 8y ago

I don’t know anyone that clicks on ads. But apparently they’re still valuable somehow. It’s a mystery to me, but I guess even without clicks the chance to pollute someone’s mind with an ad in a website is still valuable to an advertiser in the same way that it is on a freeway billboard.

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jimnotgym 8y ago
Sometimes I click lots of ads deliberately to mess up the malgorithm, especially I click ads that are of no interest to me...What I never do is buy anything on the click through.
- charlesism 8y ago
  +1 for teaching me the neologism 'malgorithm'
  - jimnotgym 8y ago
    Thanks to 'Private Eye' magazine
- chillacy 8y ago
  Presumably why sophisticated advertisers track purchase completions through the pixel and then run ads with a goal of conversion instead of clicks.
- Aromasin 8y ago
  There's a Firefox extension I often used before installing Pi-Hole that would do exactly this on every page. It was called AdNausium. Not sure if it's still a thing, but it was pretty great at obfuscation. By the end of using it I'm pretty sure Google thought I was a middle-aged woman with an obsession for patterned summer dresses. There were a few other ways I obfuscated data using this guide :- https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwin...
snaky 8y ago
"I don't know a single person who voted for Trump"
leowoo91 8y ago
Value might be in capturing how many second it stopped you from scrolling. That could be still acting without acting.
ionised 8y ago
I use ads to tell me which companies I should avoid. Oh what's this now, an advert for Coca Cola? How obnoxious. Guess what I will never ever be buying.

achenatx 8y ago

I have clicked on multiple ads 1) toys for kids during the christmas season. Dot/dash, marble runs, tinker crate, etc 2) Bought some bike stuff when it was onsale, solo bonfire and a few other interesting gadgets. Facebook ads are a little like sharper image. 3) got scammed for $200 when I bought an electric surfboard that ended up being a $20 boogie board from china. 4) periodically click interesting articles that are ads

JohnFen 8y ago
I would never click on an ad, even if it's for something I actually want. Clicking on an ad sends a strong signal (and exposes too much data) to the ad-slingers, and the less data that I give the ad-slingers, the better off I am.