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Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com)
From a TechCrunch report: Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing "promising results from Australia and Thailand," Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta test that lets businesses buy space between your chat threads. Later this month, a small percentage of users will start seeing ads in the Messenger app's home tab. Facebook tells TechCrunch that where these ads appear in the inbox "depends on how many threads a user has, the size of their phone's physical screen and the pixel density of the display." Over the next month, Facebook will gradually roll out Messenger ads to all advertisers globally. They'll have the ability to buy through the Ads Manager or Power Editor, with Messenger becoming one of the automatic placements for Facebook ads alongside the main Facebook app, Instagram and the Audience Network of other apps and sites. Ads aren't targeted by what people write in messages, and instead use the same Facebook targeting, measurement tools and minimum 50 percent pixels in view standard for viewability.
Mind to computer linkage to take off. "This link brought to you by PharmaCor."
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
I just don't get enough of those co-dependent, needy messages from Facebook already. I rarely get on to Facebook, because while I consider it somewhat useful, there is also a lot of noise. I don't care that my second cousin Betty just posted a picture. I do care that my uncle Albert has a birthday today. I scan it once a week or so to keep up to date.
Unfortunately, Facebook seems to be "all or nothing" in the way it feeds news.
I get that they have to make money, but filling my inbox with spam, and texting me as if something meaningful has been sent is pretty damn disgusting as a tactic.
mobile what, exactly?
Tell me again why I need to install a dedicated Facebook app to send messages?
If I want to text someone, I'll send a text. If they insist on using FB messages, I'll use the desktop web site (on my phone) to read it.
This was a bad idea for users from day 1, and I will not be a part of it. Bring on the good technology in its place.
or something like that? The actor I think was in an X-Files, too, about vampire pizza delivery. The actress was Minnie Ripperton's daughter (neddle scratch that). Anywho, it was set in the future, and there were nothing but ADS everywhere. And here you are, there, now!
And Welcome. To the machine!
Drug addicts say this all the time, so it must be true.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
If I skip the ads, will I lose my merits? I pedal hard for them!
Facebook Blocker Firefox add-on.
Google, Apple, and Facebook and their customers will keep increasing the abuse, apparently. Abusing other people is personally damaging, but the managers of those companies apparently don't have the social understanding to realize that.
Just when I was getting semi-comfortable ditching SMS for FB Messenger. Oh well, back to SMS.
The Solution is to not use Facebook Messenger, second only to Don't trust Facebook as a company.
From the attacker's point of view, it's best to specify "use this app" because you can have the app do whatever you want (such as show ads to your adversary).
From the defender's point of view, it's best of specify "use this open protocol" because then the user is in control of what the app does (such as abstain from showing ads to you).
Are you Facebook? Then you should be telling people to use their app.
Are you anyone other than Facebook? Then you should be using XMPP or maybe SMS, and I couldn't even begin to guess which app is the right one for you.
It's all about who you are. That'll tell you which thing you want, in the zero-sum conflict between Facebook and its users.
so this is something one would have to use Facebook to be effected by?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
If you must use facecrack, then get a copy of FBPURITY!
No more ads!
Why can't the messaging world be more like normal telephony? or E-mail? You know, with things like standards, a universal shared namespace and interoperability between providers?
I would gladly pay for such a service instead of having to deal with the likes of Facebook.
Like, in the middle of while you were talking to somebody, you suddenly needed to listen to 15 to 30 second advertisement trying to sell you on getting new auto insurance or buying coca-cola?
This poses no less of a problem.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Ads aren't targeted by what people write in messages, and instead use the same Facebook targeting, measurement tools and minimum 50 percent pixels in view standard for viewability.
What they will do: target an ad at both you and someone you are in a conversation with, which takes up half your screen. Then watch the conversation to see if you mention the product. Charge the company:
1. extra for special ad placement
2. extra for watching for keywords
3. extra because the keyword was mentioned (See how effective our ad platform is!?!?)
4. ????
5. Profit
First I tried tweaking the fb app and Messager app to tweak down tracking and auto-play videos etc. And each time there was some sort of fb privacy tracking story I would get a bit more paranoid. I deleted the Messages app. Later a deleted the regular Facebook app. My general feeling is that I am tracked less and have more privacy although I don't specifically know what. I do slightly miss more active notifications of Facebook activity.
Facebook is like one of those people at a party who greets you with an uncomfortably long hug... they feel or want to be closer to you than you to them.
Why doesn't Facebook offer a premium service to users? I like Facebook, it lets me keep in touch with family and friends in a semi-organized way. They have 2 billion active monthly users. They make approx. 2.3 billion per month in revenue. Can I just pay them two dollars a month for an ad-free service? They would be making money. I don't have to see ads. Win-win for everyone.
Just because I can hook a shark from a boat, I do no offer to wrestle it in the water.
Not a fan of this idea. FB Messenger spams could exceed the data caps on mobile plans ($$$) and create a backlash from angry customers.
When Apple launched the iCloud, customers found their data caps exceeded because iOS was shoving high density data (photos, movies, etc) between other iOS and OSX devices WITHOUT TELLING THE USER.
Not that I'm worried - I refuse to install any social media app on my mobile device. They gobble up battery juice and data bandwidth. WOMBAT (Waste Of Money, Brains, And Talent).
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
this has been coming for a long time now, unfortunately the share owners require more and more profits for the percentage of the company they "own" there is really only so much monetization that can happen in expanding user base now a days (with what 1.5 B users?) so now they must find a way to monetize more.
why are they doing this to messenger? simply because some people only use messenger and dont actually check their feed. I was one of those people, I only had the messenger app installed and never actually checked my feed so i was one of a small subset of users that they were not monetizing. thankfully i left facebook, but before i did i sent a contact list wide message with the numerous other ways i could be reached (email, text, phone call). I stayed in contact with maybe 10% of my contact list. I have since concluded that facebook simply hooks into everyones voyeuristic needs to know what other people are doing. At some point people will realize that the benefits of facebook are not worth the noise that they are being forced to ingest.
Thats what happens when people are your product, it is not a sustainable market because your product has a mind of its own and you can only control it soo much.
Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):
There are three types of people who call themselves Jews:
1. True Torah [Sephardic] Jews: these are the descendants of Prophet Jacob-Israel (Jacobites or Israelites) (about 5%-10% of all Jews)
2. Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews: these are the descendants of a Turkic idol/phallic worshiping tribe who migrated to Russia in the 7th Century A.C. and whose nobility converted to Judaism in the 8th Century A.C. and now inhabit mostly Europe. (about 90%-95% of all Jews)
3. Zionist Jews: these are the ones from the 2 above who are pretending to be Jews for political reasons but whoâ(TM)re are actually Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.
They are led by the neo-Pharisees (occult-priest-banklords). They want to establish a Zionist Luciferian state from the Nile to the Euphrates from where they plan to rule the Earth. The new Israeli Supreme Court funded by the Rothschilds Banklords is full of Masonic Symbols, just like the B.I.S. Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is the Mother of All Private Central Banks.
The hexagram symbol on the Israeli flag is the ancient Star of Moloch, a Satanic-Baal deity to which people were sacrificed. There is no such thing as a Star of David which the modern Jews have been fooled into believing; however, the True Torah Jews are not fooled by the Zionists Illuminatis and you can visit their websites for more info .
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be serv
It's that or I just delete Messenger.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Even before this, they have basically killed Messenger for me. I can no longer find an option to archive a conversation on the mobile app and it's filled with useless shit that automatically reappears some time after you close it. Apparently there is an official "Messenger Lite", but thats only officially available to budget Android users, not flagship Android or iOS. It's reached the point where I've basically given up on Messenger because it's just frustrating. Hope they won't "improve" Whatsapp in a similar fashion, or I would expect the amount of people in my circle that use Telegram and Signal to suddenly spike.
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
...and just to be on the safe side:
127.0.0.1 ssl.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 *.facebook.com
I've had that in place for years, never missed it.
Because I don't have a better way of staying in touch with my friends from other countries.
Really. SMTP, IMAP, MIME, PGP. All stable, well-documented protocols. Granted, they've accumulated some cruft, but they evolve (albeit slowly), that's the price of interop.
Why do we want interop, you ask? Decentralization. Multitude of implementations *and instances*.
Why the fuck someone would want "Facebook mail" (or "Google mail", for that) really escapes me.
Sheep.
Block input and out from and to the following CIDRs. The one that affects you will depend on what country you're in.
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user