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To target just one person (in the new rules), rather than listing email addresses and only targeting one gender, couldn’t you upload one genuine and 19 fake ema

To target just one person (in the new rules), rather than listing email addresses and only targeting one gender, couldn’t you upload one genuine and 19 fake email addresses? Or does FB filter your list based on those emails it recognises as users... in which case, is this a security hole where you can test an email against FB to see if that user’s registered by submitting 19 genuine addresses and 1 to-be-verified address to see if it’s accepted or not?

pwnna 12y ago
I assume it has to be real users on facebook. The author of the article suggest uploading 1 user targetted, and then 19 real users that's in a specific group, and exclude that group... Facebook could close this loophole by saying that the group targetted must be >20.. but even then I still think this kind of work will still work.. simply target people who liked Adblock or something + your friend, and your friend may be the only person that sees this.
- gknoy 12y ago
  Or, bombard random people with Really Strange ads as collateral damage along with the pranking of one's friend. There are probably downsides to this, of course.
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- PeterisP 12y ago
  Well, there's no way to distinguish real users from "real" users - getting 19 sockpuppet accounts on FB is trivial, so just target them and your mark. As a bonus, if the advertising is per-view and your 19 fake accounts never log in, then the price of advertising to 19+1 is the same as advertising just to the intended target.
jc4p 12y ago
If the list you upload can't be matched to real users you get a generic error message of the form "Unable to match, check your input."
anigbrowl 12y ago
I'm sure they verify the email addresses, but if you have a serious intent to prank/troll/harass a specific individual rather than just a casual desire then I imagine it can't be too difficult - otherwise advertising for narrow/niche markets would not be very effective.

pwnna 12y ago

I assume it has to be real users on facebook. The author of the article suggest uploading 1 user targetted, and then 19 real users that's in a specific group, and exclude that group... Facebook could close this loophole by saying that the group targetted must be >20.. but even then I still think this kind of work will still work.. simply target people who liked Adblock or something + your friend, and your friend may be the only person that sees this.

gknoy 12y ago
Or, bombard random people with Really Strange ads as collateral damage along with the pranking of one's friend. There are probably downsides to this, of course.
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PeterisP 12y ago
Well, there's no way to distinguish real users from "real" users - getting 19 sockpuppet accounts on FB is trivial, so just target them and your mark. As a bonus, if the advertising is per-view and your 19 fake accounts never log in, then the price of advertising to 19+1 is the same as advertising just to the intended target.

jc4p 12y ago

If the list you upload can't be matched to real users you get a generic error message of the form "Unable to match, check your input."

anigbrowl 12y ago

I'm sure they verify the email addresses, but if you have a serious intent to prank/troll/harass a specific individual rather than just a casual desire then I imagine it can't be too difficult - otherwise advertising for narrow/niche markets would not be very effective.