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What if someone were to develop an app, browser extension, etc. that automatically disabled political ads in Facebook. Why not disable political ads by default
by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
What if someone were to develop an app, browser extension, etc. that automatically disabled political ads in Facebook.
Why not disable political ads by default and if users want them, then they can enable them. Otherwise this is nothing more than the old "opt-out" trick, as used for email spam and now ubiquitous in internet marketing. The choice should not be to "opt-out", it should be to "opt-in".
- martin-adams 6y agoI suspect the political parties would start screaming that Facebook are limiting access to freedom of speech.
- hutzlibu 6y agoI don't use facebook, so I am confused, but aren't there apps/browser extension that block all ads, called addblockers? (or are they blocked by facebook?) Why on earth would I choose to view normal advertisement, but not political?
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoTo be honest I am not an expert in this area either. I know there are ways to avoid ads on Facebook (even without using an adblocker) but these would only be known by more technical users. I also believe Facebook tries to subvert ad blockers. What I am referring to is the idea of an app/extension for non-technical users. Make it so easy that it's "frictionless".