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I'm assuming the rule is around because FB knows it's targeting isn't 100% accurate and it might ruffle feathers if an ad claims you're something you're not. I
by thelean12 5y ago
I'm assuming the rule is around because FB knows it's targeting isn't 100% accurate and it might ruffle feathers if an ad claims you're something you're not. I don't see that specifically as nefarious.
Especially because FB tells me why I am being shown an ad already.
- defaultname 5y agoIn the early days of COVID I was curious what the difference between types of viruses. e.g. how herpes and HIV hides in cells compared to viruses like influenza and SARS-CoV-2. One of those sites clearly had Facebook integration because now Facebook is sure that I'm an HIV-positive gay man, with ads that correspond. It is one thing to get the ads but it would be a bit more overt if there was a text ad declaring that I was an HIV positive gay man.
- floatingatoll 5y agoPeople take offense at being told that there’s a machine labeling them, and would demand the right to revise or remove the machine-assigned labels. Facebook prevents that outcome by preventing disclosure of targeting characteristics. See also this Show HN from /new for purging your complete set of labels, and ask why Facebook doesn’t build this into the site UI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045374 (The link is broken, but apparently there's a page you can single-remove specific interests from, if you can find it.)
- exikyut 5y agoWow, that item link points to a literally blank page. The site template is there but there isn't even a title header. Sadly even the web archive's copy of the page has the empty version :(