Lol, I got hit with this: "You're Temporarily Blocked: It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it."
Anyone using this may want to s/1000/2000/ on the first line.
I got this message once without even trying, I was just clicking the button for "see why this ad was shown to you" and it was always "You are in the USA and 18-35" which seemed pretty vague for very relevant ads. I never understood why they give the option if A. you don't want me to actually check B. you're not going to tell me how you knew I was in the market for a vacuum cleaner
You have rather succinctly noted that sodding huge walled off communities come and go, with time. ::FAC3:B00C: is already very old school and largely irrelevant. They just haven't noticed yet.
Source? It's always been my understanding that while smaller players do this, the major ad players - Meta, Google, etc - never do this: Data on everyone is their greatest competitive advantage, and they don't want to give it away!
You don't have, but many sites you visit have a Facebook code hidden in their pages that sends data about any visitor to Facebook. Thus Facebook knows a lot about you even if you don't have an account.
I'll answer but I don't think you want one/it... They're different. That's why. Simple.
One you're giving them information/still seeing ads
The other, they're guessing and you're free from the mind rot. Distance surely hurts their accuracy.
Can't stop them guessing but you can stop being their authoritative source. You've heard the whole, "we're in charge of our response, not the problem", right?
That's a great answer, thank you! Yeah, "someone non-consensually has low-accuracy information on me" is experientially different than "someone is using (more-accurate) information on me to serve me ads". The former's still not _great_ (they can still pass that information to other people which could lead to bad experiences), but it's still much better than the latter. Thanks for the clarification!
I have a hard time believing that Facebook does a particularly good job with its shadow profiles. They can't even figure out which continent I live on or narrow my age down to more than a couple decades off.
For the times I need to wade thru the muck mbasic + adblock means the only ads I see are recommended groups. Those are usually history geeks focused on cities thousands of miles away from anywhere I've been in the past decade.
Same situation for me. Basically the only ads I ever see in my native language are for American expat tax services (I’m not American, have never visited the continent and have never expressed interest in doing so).
Sometimes I wonder just how good this adtech really all is when the best they can do is figure out I speak English (browser language) and live not in an English speaking country (IP address) and just assume therefore I am American.
That's probably less to do with Meta and their tech than a marketer setting up their ads in the way you describe (language: english, country: yours). I'm not sure you can even target nationality at all.
A lot of the filtering of whom to show ads to is heuristics to try and target 'high value costumers'. Getting target with very irrelevant ads might just mean you are considered low value by most advertisers so you get served ads from advertisers willing to pay very little per impression.
I'd take as a signal your online cloaking is working as intended. I often get very random ads and recommendations in languages I don't even speak so I think my online anonimity fu is working as intended.
I set my language to English (Pirate) a long time ago to similar effect.
The option has been removed since, making me part of an ever shrinking community of essentially random people - not a particularly interesting target for advertisers.
Much more entertaining: Get the list of advertisers. Find the ones who aren't allowed to share your data with Facebook, e.g. due to lack of consent or because they're bound by professional secrecy (e.g. banks or health related things). Report to your local DPA.
When it comes to the UK DPA they will only even consider your complaint if you have evidence of trying to resolve the issue with the offending company directly, so it will not have the desired outcome because most companies will opt you out, removing your grounds to complain to the ICO in the first place.
Reminds me of a court case [0] proactively challenging Facebook, due to a time the company gave someone a lifetime ban [1] for making this kind of consumer-tool.
LOL a lifetime ban from Facebook?! Whatever will we do with all that better mental health and free time from not doomscrolling all day! Don’t threaten me with a good time!
As someone who has read tons of books, articles, etc, on the addictive qualities of Facebook and the personal harm it can do - and personally observed the effects it was having on me - I STILL only deleted the Facebook app from my phone a few weeks ago.
The dissonance between what we know is good for us and our actual behaviour in the face of addiction is truly incredible.
Reminder to use AdNauseum [1] that will not only hide the ads but also click it, messing with targeting and spending advertisers' money at the same time.
My bank telling Facebook that I'm their customer is a breach of privacy. If you care about ethics not law, it's none of Facebook's business to know who I bank with. If you don't care about ethics, only law as written, it's a breach of the law for the bank to share this information with Facebook.
And at least one European Neo-bank no longer does this. I don't think I was the only/first one to report them, and unfortunately I don't think they were fined for doing it, but I sure did report them.
"A study from Australia and the United Kingdom by Lorraine Sheridan and David James[13] compared 128 self-defined victims of 'gang stalking' with a randomly selected group of 128 self-declared victims of stalking by an individual. All 128 'victims' of gang stalking were judged to be delusional, compared with only 5 victims of individual stalking."
> Gang stalking or group-stalking is a set of persecutory beliefs in which those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people.
That is literally true though. Have you ever read one of those cookie banners to see the list of organizations stalking you at all times on the web? It's often in the high hundreds. Nearly every electronic device manufactured in the last 10 years is stalking you at all times. If you don't have an active ad blocker, they also harass you constantly in a personalized way using the information they gather by stalking you.
Interesting, I guess most people are unaware that running these scripts does not stop the data from being collected, because Facebook is not the one collecting most of it.
They’re already trying to maximize revenue and have maximized saturation of ads until their network becomes less sticky by people getting annoyed and not using it.
So you’re getting the same number of ads either way, even if Facebook can’t make more money off you.
That doesn’t really make sense. Publishers will already show you an ad every time doing so is profitable. They won’t show you an ad when it isn’t profitable.
Whatever opportunity you’re imagining where a publisher would a new ad once ads become less profitable, why wouldn’t they be showing a (more profitable) ad right now?
I'm worried that if you use this, Facebook will permaban you for something like "using modified or unauthorized clients to interact with Facebook services".
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I clicked around a little and I think that the correct page for me is this one, perhaps it is the correct one for you too? The script doesn't work, but it looks like it could work with some tweaking. https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings/?section=...
I don't know how well it works in practice. The other day I bought something from a local webshop (bike parts) on my laptop. The next day I'm seeing an ad from the same webshop on my Facebook feed on my mobile. Yes, it could be coincidental though I do see a lot of bike-related ads and practically never this company. (Even though I am a returning, if not very frequent customer of theirs.)
I heard that sites like Facebook run A/B tests all the time, and the version you get served at a given time may not be the same others see. I also suppose the version you see may be slightly different on different territories somehow.
Also, these scripts break often as they depend on observable behaviors that are not contracts. It's Hyrum's law again.
Does this just impact ads shown on the site, or does it also cut down on data collection and targeting that occurs when you browse to third party sites who happen to include javascript from Facebook?
How's this technique compare to just staying logged out of Facebook? Or using it solely in a sandboxed browsing environment?
> IoB (Internet of Behavior) as an extension of the IoT, which focuses on capturing, processing, and analyzing the “digital dust” in people’s daily lives. The term ”digital dust” is a good metaphor for the traces that users leave behind in their Internet activities. As the collection of digital dust from everyday life increases, including data that spans both the digital and physical worlds, information can in turn influence users’ behaviors.
What's the legality of a script like this? Could this be construed as a violation of the CFAA if you were a motivated/evil enough lawyer?
I recall some surprising legal outcomes in recent years, for example jail for posting fake Yelp reviews. Anyone know of any case law for this sort of scripting?
Those third parties upload the data they have about you to Facebook (clicks, cookies, times, geo, non-psychology factors)
Facebook then refines what the third-parties have with what Facebook has (enriches this coarse data with rich psychographic data that only Facebook has)
