Facebook - The Product is You

[moda0306]

If something is free, you are not the customer... you are the product being sold.

[Xan]

Except here. I mean, so far. muahahahaaha

[dualstow]

Yep.

[dualstow]

Except here. I mean, so far. muahahahaaha

Well played, Mr. Admin.

Yep, I always suspected that Xan was swimming in cash from this site.

And that's just 1/4 of what he's swimming in.

[gizmo_rat]

Google facebook ect. all pushing the line that the surveillance makes the advertising super potent... really ?
When I switch off my adblocker and see 3/4 of a page of crap that I bought or decided not to buy months ago I get this sudden urge to clear my cookies purchase, right ?

[Cortopassi]

I too have adblocker and just saw the CNBC popup asking to please turn it off.

I have never, ever clicked on an ad to the side or inline on Facebook.

Are they possibly affecting me subliminally? Maybe. But if I am typical of the internet/FB/etc browser, and I know my family is similar, I have no idea why companies still think the internet is the ultimate place to buy ads.

I think more and more go the route of Proctor and Gamble and find out paying $$ for internet ads is relatively ineffective.

[Kriegsspiel]

Are they possibly affecting me subliminally? Maybe. But if I am typical of the internet/FB/etc browser, and I know my family is similar, I have no idea why companies still think the internet is the ultimate place to buy ads.

I think more and more go the route of Proctor and Gamble and find out paying $$ for internet ads is relatively ineffective.

Well, they put the ads where the eyeballs are. There was just a story yesterday about how advertisers are disenchanted with Disney and Nickelodeon and are happy to put their ads on Youtube videos of kids unboxing toys.

[Xan]

Having the web site use your CPU to mine coins is another new option for that, pug. How do you feel about that one? Assuming it's above-board, of course.

[dualstow]

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When I switch off my adblocker and see 3/4 of a page of crap that I bought or decided not to buy months ago I get this sudden urge to clear my cookies purchase, right ?

I think the next version of Mac OS (High Sierra) will have some built-in protection against those ads that pop up for things you browsed in the past. Of course it's an arms race, but I'm glad to hear it.

[gizmo_rat]

I think that’s in safari 11, it tries to detect and discard tracking cookies. In terms of an ad tracking arms race the Adnauseam plugin is the tactical nuke. https://adnauseam.io/