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

Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 9, 2016 @04:10AM from the no-escape dept.

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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Re:facebook is not a necessity by grub · 2016-08-09 04:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Use the FB Purity extension for all major browsers. It does a lot of nice customizable things to FB, even an unfriend notifier.

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Re:Good by MitchDev · 2016-08-09 06:21 · Score: 4, Informative

Check your ToS, are you sure it's actually YOUR device? ;)
Re: Good by Diss+Champ · 2016-08-09 06:44 · Score: 4, Informative

They are the most valuable commodity that facebook sells to the advertisers that are their true customers.