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I was just thinking that I would love to have an option to pay for Facebook. Don't track me across the web, don't show me ads in the sidebar, don't show any "pr
by MartinCron 14y ago
I was just thinking that I would love to have an option to pay for Facebook. Don't track me across the web, don't show me ads in the sidebar, don't show any "promoted" crap in my feed.
Billions of dollars, hundreds of the best and brightest minds, years of personal data about me, my friends, and thousands of people like me and I get ads for... Applebee's. Is that really the best we can do?
- ebiester 14y agoThe problem is the mere fact that you're willing to pay makes you infinitely more valuable.
- neutronicus 14y agoI think if they stopped tracking the type of person who would pay $5 for Facebook, the value of their data set would be gutted.
- MartinCron 14y agoI guess they just aren't yet capitalizing on the value of all of that tracking data. The most prominent thing promoted to me today was infant formula from Wal-Mart. There are at least six things wrong with that ad: I don't shop at Walmart. I don't live anywhere near a Walmart. I don't have an infant. When I did have an infant, I didn't usually use formula. The rare times I had to use infant formula, I wouldn't use a discount retailer's house brand. I can't imagine, long term, that Walmart will continue to pay Facebook more to keep showing me junk like that than I would just to make it go away.