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This is different; Google created an advertisement solution for the entire web and pushed it as such, necessitating that it be fairly open and non-judging. Fac
by Klonoar 15y ago
This is different; Google created an advertisement solution for the entire web and pushed it as such, necessitating that it be fairly open and non-judging.
Facebook's exists solely on their website, and while some will try to argue that Facebook has by and large become "the web" for people, the point is that it's still their site, their rules, their game, and in turn you play by their rules. They don't hide this fact in the slightest.
It's simply good business for Facebook to block these ads.
- esrauch 15y agoI'm not sure if I follow that logic. Why wouldn't it similarly be good business for Google to block all ads to Facebook and Twitter across their entire network at this point?
- hackinthebochs 15y agoWould that not cause anti-trust issues? Google pretty much owns the online ad space. Blocking competitors ads is not in their interest.
- esrauch 15y agoMaybe if they blocked their ads on the internet, but it just doesn't seem like there is much difference in blocking bing from advertizing on google.com and facebook blocking ads for google+. I think Facebook has even more market share in social than google has in search, and both are decisions about advertizing on their own destination pages with their own in-house advertizing systems.
- haberman 15y agoGoogle does not block competitors' ads even for ads appearing on Google.com.