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Most the ads I get on Facebook are for dumb looking mobile games. Looking at "Why are you seeing this ad" it's basically "Is this person female and aged 25-35"
by trissylegs 6y ago
Most the ads I get on Facebook are for dumb looking mobile games. Looking at "Why are you seeing this ad" it's basically "Is this person female and aged 25-35"
It's annoying because: The ads are extremely disctracting: I can't help but notice them. They look like they for the same game the last 500 ads were for with a reskin. And I haven't played a mobile game since 2012 and facebook is supposed to be able to track all of this right?
The other ads are for womans clothes or shoes which is reasonably accurate. But you need almost zero tracking to determine that I might be receptive to online clothes store. (I'm not, I buy clothes in persons because sizing is hard)
I also once got ads from Jordan Pertsons thing... WOW HOW WRONG CAN IT GET
- throwaways885 6y ago> The ads are extremely disctracting: I can't help but notice them Sadly this sounds like it's perfectly WAI. > I also once got ads from Jordan Pertsons thing... WOW HOW WRONG CAN IT GET I mean, what's wrong with that from a marketing perspective? He has a fair few female fans so the targeting can't be that wrong.
- Freak_NL 6y agoWhat's stopping you from installing an ad-blocker like uBlock Origin? You can't help but notice them (no one really can), and it doesn't sound like they add value to your life.
- colinmhayes 6y agoSounds like she's on mobile considering the ads
- trissylegs 6y agoI am. But still get them running Facebook from Firefox with Ublock installed. I also get facebook ads on Firefox and Edge on Desktop. As an aside I switched to the mobile app recently considering the Ad Block on firefox wasn't working.
- Freak_NL 6y agoBe sure to use UBlock Origin, not UBlock. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/ Facebook is a pretty high profile website, so it is unlikely that UBlock Origin won't block all adds there (I don't use Facebook myself, so I can't verify). In a normal desktop browser that is.
- trissylegs 6y agoOf course. Facebook is a serious cat & mouse with adblocking. I once tried to look at an ad with the devtools inspector and the ad the disappeared. Somehow FB was detecting the inspector and remove the ad so it couldn't be inspected. (Well I'm sure that could be used against them) https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/fnkwa4/facebook_ads/fla7alm/?context=3 https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/fnkwa4/facebo... There is new-ish one that might work. EDIT: No, now it's only the text that identifies it as "Sponsored" the rest of the ad does not disappear. EDIT2: For an example here is how the word "Sponsored" is represented in the DOM: <span aria-labelledby="jsc_c_cm" aria-label="Sponsored" class="j1lvzwm4 stjgntxs ni8dbmo4 q9uorilb gpro0wi8"><span aria-label="Sponsored" aria-labelledby="jsc_c_cn"></span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">S<span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">n</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">t</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">S</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">n</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">p</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">p</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">o</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">n</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">i</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">s</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">i</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">o</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">S</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">r</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">o</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">e</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">l</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">o</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">e</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">c</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">n</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">s</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">c</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">s</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">o</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">r</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">e</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4">d</span><span class="b6zbclly myohyog2 l9j0dhe7 aenfhxwr l94mrbxd ihxqhq3m nc684nl6 t5a262vz sdhka5h4" style="position: absolute; top: 3em;">d</span></span></span>
- everdrive 6y agoIn some cases, targeted advertising is still quite dumb. Advertisers themselves choose who to target. In your example, someone may have said “We need more women interested in Jordan Peterson! Target white women 25-35.”