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Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed

Posted by Unknown on from the worse-than-mafia-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article at ZDNet: "As expected, Facebook has started displaying ads in users' News Feeds. You may not be seeing them yet as the company is rolling them out gradually, like it does for all its changes. ... Last month, a Facebook spokesperson said the company hoped to 'show people no more than one Sponsored Story in their News Feeds per day.' This is no longer the case, as Facebook now says you may see more Featured stories 'if you visit your News Feed a lot.'"

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  1. No real opt-out by Ron2K · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA implies that there isn't any opt-out, other than unliking pages or nuking individual ads:

    Since these ads are just stories, they cannot be stopped completely (although ad blockers may find a way around this). Users do, however, have three options provided by Facebook to limit the ads: click hide to remove individual stories, limit the volume of stories you see from a specific friend to only important posts, or unfriend the person and/or unlike the Page to stop seeing certain kinds of stories altogether.

    This is going to piss off more than a few people...

  2. Slashdot loves facebook by ieatcookies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Free service puts some ads up, next story at 11. I predict yhis submission still gets 5000 comments with the obligatory "that's why I have never had a Facebook account" and "Facebook is selling your info to nazis". Slashdot loves to hate.

    1. Re:Slashdot loves facebook by Scutter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Free service puts some ads up, next story at 11. I predict yhis submission still gets 5000 comments with the obligatory "that's why I have never had a Facebook account" and "Facebook is selling your info to nazis". Slashdot loves to hate.

      It's not even slightly free. You're paying by giving them a huge amount of marketable data about yourself. Just because it doesn't cost you actual dollars doesn't mean you aren't paying.

      --

      "Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
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