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The key to making the feed more tolerable from an advertisement perspective is to methodically remove all the "interests" they've collected about you: https://
by tosser0001 6y ago
The key to making the feed more tolerable from an advertisement perspective is to methodically remove all the "interests" they've collected about you:
https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/ https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/
Advertisers buy into Facebook's ontology in order to target the ads. If you have no interests you'll likely not get targeted. Very few advertisers reach out to generic "male in their 30s", etc.
Then turn of all the other setting such as "Ads based on data from partners", etc.
- ldd 6y agoThanks! The only thing that worried me is that Facebook sees me as someone with "Close friends of Women with a Birthday in 7-30 days" That just sounds sleazy.
- tosser0001 6y agoIt would be interesting to know how they've built out this ontology. I'm sure they seeded it with something that they acquired from some company that specializes in this sort of thing. I think that's how they got in trouble a few years back because their initial one had subjects like "Nazi", etc., and you could buy ads targeting people interested in Nazis. I'm sure they've since gone through and methodically cleared out those sorts of subjects.
- NoodleIncident 6y agoThe "company that specializes in this sort of thing" is called... Facebook. They look at your friends and their listed birthdays to generate an ad category...
- NoodleIncident 6y ago"Might be shopping for birthday presents" doesn't seem sleazy to me