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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.
I know a lot of ad block users who have suggested that publishers should take control of, or better police, their advertising. One of the most common suggestions is that publishers should host the advertising that appears on their pages. So, here's Facebook doing that very thing and yet 90% of the comments above are now whining about that too. You are all a bunch of parasitical crybabies.
I use an ad blocker and a tracker blocker and sometimes a script blocker as well. I strenuously object to the "let the viewer beware" attitude that most web site operators these days seem to have. Allowing third parties to inject code into their pages to be delivered to my browser without a second thought should be a criminal act.
While I have no use for Facebook whatsoever, they should be applauded for stepping up by taking control of, and responsibility for, the advertising that will appear on their pages. If you don't like it then you are all free to quit the site and join folks like me who talk to their friends face to face or on the phone now and then.