Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users

Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by millstone on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:09PM (#12256576)

Facebook tracks you and shows you ads regardless of whether you use Facebook.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11795248/facebook-ad-netwo...

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by blahi on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:37PM (#12256810)

How is this pertinent to the discussion about serving and blocking ads on facebook.com?

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by CaptSpify on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:23PM (#12257442)

He's saying that facebook feels entitled to my data, even if I'm not using their resources. Why shouldn't I, then, feel entitled to their resources without blocking ads?

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by ASalazarMX on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:18PM (#12255649)

Because they insistingly invite you if you happen to land on a Facebook link?

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by idlewords on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:18PM (#12255648)

Because they encourage us to use them and make them available for free.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by blahi on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:26PM (#12255720)

It is available on the condition that you are served ads alongside content.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by idlewords on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:45PM (#12255878)

No one is ever obligated to view ads. I'm not stealing from the billboard company because I keep my eyes on the road, and I'm not a bad person because I mute the television every five minutes when NBC runs ads for things I don't want during the Olympics.

The browser is our user agent. Facebook can serve whatever it wants, but we're under no contractual or moral obligation to look at it.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by jeena on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:23PM (#12257797)

In a not so distant future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMXKQdc5ZM&t=9m

Btw. the Black Mirror TV series is awesome.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by fl0wenol on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:49PM (#12256404)

What makes you think that? I recall reading previous articles linked from HN on this very topic that Facebook most strongly values the network size they can use in marketing sales pitches (i.e. the print circulation equivalent, the "reach"), not the ad impressions specifically.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by cmc31 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:40PM (#12255832)

Is that in their EULA?

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by StavrosK on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:49PM (#12255904)

Oh but my EULA says "By injecting ads into the articles I read, you implicitly agree to provide me with free resources with no obligation on my part".

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by effie on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:44PM (#12256858)

That's good, I may incorporate something like this into my User-Agent.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by fapjacks on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:38PM (#12257197)

Hah! I'm suddenly laughing and crying inside at the thought of massive Useragent strings with individual EULAs in them.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by ulucs on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:05PM (#12258572)

Because they openly state: "It’s free and always will be.", not "It’s free and always will be if you view the ads we serve in your browser.".

Also my country's civil law (along with any other reasonable civil laws) throws out the three links below out of our contract, as they're neither at a reasonable length nor clearness when the context is considered.

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