Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com)

Long-time reader geek writes: Facebook is going to start forcing ads to appear for all users of its desktop website, even if they use ad-blocking software (Could be paywalled; alternate source). The social network said on Tuesday that it will change the way advertising is loaded into its desktop website to make its ad units considerably more difficult for ad blockers to detect. "Facebook is ad-supported. Ads are a part of the Facebook experience; they're not a tack on," said Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, Facebook's vice president of engineering for advertising and pages.

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My civil disobedience

[OzPeter]

Whenever FB puts an adv. in my feed I flag it as being Offensive and Sexually explicit. It may not screw FB over by much to do so, but it makes me feel good.

(Kinda like yesterday when I strung the Indian "computer support" guy along for 15 minutes by pretending to poking around my windows machine. In the end he asked my what browser I was using, and when I said Safari he swore in his native language and then hung up on me)

Re:My civil disobedience

[Rogue974]

My personal best was 37 minutes before I finally let the guy know I was stringing him along. I was working at home and had a whole lot of completely mind numbing tasks when the guy called so I could continue to work and mess with the guy.

I acted all concerned and said, let me get to my computer room, it is on the other side of the house and put the phone down for 2 minutes. Then I picked up he was still there so I said, hold on, it is booting...which one, I have 4? I told him, they are old and slow and will take a bit to boot hold on, another 2 minutes of putting the phone down.

Then I started playing along, acting like the horrible end user who is totally illiterate and can barely use a computer. Had "monitor issues" because it was unplugged. Didn't know where anything was. He told me to open a command prompt and type things in, which always resulted in Unknown command because i was "misspelling" what he told me because I was bad at typing or thought it was a different letter because of his accent.. He then switched to Alpha, Sam, Sam, designation and I pretended to type in alpha, sam, sam.

Then I used the bathroom, picked up stuff around the house a bit and finally needed to get back to actual work and told him, I will level with you, I do PC security stuff for a living, I have been messing with you the entire time.

He said, well this entire time I have been hacking into your machine and stealing all of your files and if you don't pay me, I will not let you have them back. I laughed and said, no you aren't to which he said, never underestimate the power of the common man. I told him, you are a common criminal and not that good of one and that lead to the tirade of swearing and he hung up!

Re: Good

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

"Invasive malware and 0day attack vectors are a part of the Facebook experience.."

Re:Challenge Accepted!

[NotARealUser]

Wait, you "accepted the challenge" and then passed the buck on to somebody else? I do not think that phrase means what you think it means. :-)

Re:What if I don't use FB ? EOM

[Phusion]

Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

Re:Why use FB? It's a social network

[Anonymous Coward]

Also people who don't bother to use caps. Bunch of wankers.

Re:Challenge Accepted!

[Anonymous Coward]

A true manager in the making!

Re: Good

[JackieBrown]

I'm pretty sure the off button (closing the page or not going there) still works.

Re:whatever

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

That explains why I see less posts from people...

Fewer. You see "fewer" posts from people.

You can have less milk or gas or oxygen but not fewer.
You can have fewer chairs or bullets or pillows, but not less.

This concludes the Grammar Nazi(tm) post on "Countable and Uncountable Nouns" for August 9th, 2016.

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled flame-throwing, already in progress.