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Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change by bogomipz on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:46PM (#16441224)
>"banner adds since I switched to Android this year were interesting as I used to use my gmail account for FB. First, ..."

Where were these banner ads exactly? FB uses Google's ad network to target people who recently quit FB? Is that correct?

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Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change by dade_ on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:24PM (#16442071)
They were in Android apps that had banner ads (TuneIn, and a couple others). I closed my Facebook account in 2014, so I don't consider it recent. It really did say come back to Facebook. Since creating a new Google account and resetting all of my android devices, I haven't seen any of those ads again. Now for example, in TuneIn I see banner ads for Google Adwords.
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Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change by megy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:56PM (#16443202)
So nothing to do with facebook?
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Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change by callalex on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:16PM (#16443661)
How does an ad that was created by, targeted by, and paid for by Facebook not hahe anything to do with Facebook?
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