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> Democrats will block Republican ads, Republicans will block Democrat ads I could be wrong, but it sounds like you can just turn off all political ads, not th

• giarc 6y ago
  Not to mention you already could accomplish this by blocking ads from those specific parties... just like you could block ads from a company.
  • Balgair 6y ago
    I think this highlights another issue with this: How many people even know that they can do this, something already implemented? Of the people that use FB, some percent won't even know that they can block ads from anyone, let alone political ones. Taking only the political ads into account, you then bifurcate the population into those that turn them off, and those that don't know to in the first place. We've been dealing (poorly) with these filter bubbles already, adding in more filtering may not be the solution here.
  • hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
    But that turns into a ridiculous game of whack-a-mole, because there are always new PACs that can pop up. That is a huge difference from a one-and-done checkbox somewhere that lets me block all political adds, regardless of what new parties and organizations are created in the future.
• michaelmior 6y ago
  Interestingly, it seems like if you have solidly made up your mind, you should block your own party's ads to save the unnecessary ad spend. Similarly, you should not block the other party's ads to cause them to waste ad dollars.
  • catalogia 6y ago
    That assumes the annoyance you suffer would be worth the money they lose. I sincerely doubt that would be the case, unless you have an exceptionally high tolerance for annoyance.