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Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com)
According to Adweek, the next target in Facebook's efforts to keep its News Feed clean is cloaking -- a technique used by "bad actors" to circumvent Facebook's review processes and show content to people that violates Facebook's Community Standards and Advertising Policies. For example, they will set up web pages so that when a Facebook reviewer clicks a link to check whether it's consistent with Facebook's policies, they are taken to a different web page than when someone using the Facebook app clicks that same link. "Facebook product management director Rob Leathern and software engineer Bobbie Chang described in a Newsroom post how 'bad actors' -- such as those promoting diet pills, pornography or muscle-building scams -- attempt to game the social network's review processes," reports Adweek. From the report: Leathern and Chang said Facebook has removed "thousands" of offenders from its platform over the past few months, and any advertisers or pages that are caught cloaking will be banned, as well. Facebook is using artificial intelligence in its anti-cloaking efforts, expanding efforts by human reviewers to identify, capture and verify incidents of cloaking and revising its policies. Pages that are not engaging in these practices should see no impact in their referral traffic.
Heyyy... wait a minute, those aren't *Peruvian* goats... Damn you Facebook!
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Considering deceptive adds for pr0n and diet pills probably makes up 40-50% of all of them, i'd say it's a pretty good start. If they would have added in male enhancement pills, russian bride sites, and payday lenders.... that'd probably get rid of 75% or more of all of the crap. Then again, that'd probably cause the internet advertising revenue to catastrophically collapse.
Don't worry though, you'll always be able to get your ENGORGE!!! pills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Fuck Facebook to hell
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
And /. can we stop making so many stories with Facebook?
It is really starting to get boring here.
When chronic Faecebook users complain to me about the toxic environment there, and I tell them "Well, don't go there," they look at me as if I'd suggested they strangle the family budgerigar. I think it's an addiction. Addiction to what, I have no idea. I only go on Faece every few months to post out-right lies, like "I think I'll buy a second boat, to go with my first boat", to give their analytics something to chew on.
try to find it via google if you don't know the domain name.
marchongoogle.com has only existed since the 8th of August. Did they even submit the site for indexing?
As it is, searching for march on google without quotes on Google returns a YouTube video talking about it as the first result. The same search doesn't return anything related to marchongoogle.com in the first page of Bing or DuckDuckGo results (although if you switch to the video tab in DuckDuckGo it shows the same video as the first video result).
But searching for "march on google" with quotes returns the marchongoogle.com site as the first result in Bing and DuckDuckGo and the site is listed in the second page of results on Google.
So I'd suggest this is less about some kind of conspiracy and more about the newness of the March On Google website.
I'd pit the accuracy/coverage of CNN over Fox "News" any friggen day.
Table-ized A.I.
There have been several stories about Facebook cracking down on fake news, labelling links to sites like Brietbart as "disputed" or just outright fake.
In any case, I share you sentiment: fuck Facebook.
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I'd pit the accuracy/coverage of CNN over Fox "News" any friggen day.
They're both shit. Fox News is more runny, but that's about the only real difference. CNN is dedicated to maintenance of the status quo, which is unsurprising since they find it profitable.
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Fox reminds me of countries with the word "democratic" in the name, like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. If you have to repeatedly remind people that you are "fair and balanced", you probably aren't...
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News Feed suggest this has something to do with news
Well of course it does; just mainly not the kind of news you're thinking of. News, as in a report of a recent event (e.g, FB post that says, "I'm on vacation in Elbonia"), or as in information that is new to the observer. When you ask a friend, "What's new with you?" their answer is ... news.
Because he was voted in by people who are too dumb to see through deceptive ads, you mean?
Or, because millions of people who voted twice for Obama got tired of the Democrats', DNC's, and Clinton Campaign's deceptive behavior (ads and much), and turned their backs on them and their extremely poor choice of a serially lying, corrupt candidate. Doesn't matter what you think of Trump. Ads on FB didn't cause Hillary to somehow forget to even set foot in Wisconsin, a state she took for granted as supporting her coronation despite labeling a sizable portion of its residents irredeemably deplorable people. And it's not just about Clinton. It's just part of the pattern that saw the D's lose nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, and both houses of congress, too. All of the phony Russia stuff and blaming FB ads (as if the only phony crap seen there was aimed at only one end of the spectrum - please!) is just a lazy way to avoid confronting the real reasons why the Democrats have lost so much traction over the last eight years.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Ah, I see you've never actually owned a business or been smart enough to understand that your paycheck (assuming you earn one, and aren't living off of other people's taxed income) is actually tied to the prosperity of business ventures that - in order to prosper - have to compete. Competition includes, among other things, communicating to prospective customers about why your product or service might be more attractive than the next one. I presume you think that a someone running a brand new start-up that's never had a single customer should be "executed on the spot" for trying to tell you about what they're offering. Idiot.
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