Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes

Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by organsnyder on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:28PM (#22328852)

The ad blockers on my devices don't prevent my in-laws, grandparents, etc. from seeing all of the misleading political ads that are out there (and I'm not about to take on sysadmin responsibilities for them, either).

My mother-in-law was shocked to learn that the Facebook ads she sees are different than the ones we see. She got us this mop for Christmas and couldn't understand how we had never heard of the brand before.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by m_ke on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:46PM (#22328467)

I've always used one on my desktop so was actually surprised to see those ads when I did the search on my phone. Those were the first political ads that I've seen because I don't watch TV and don't use social networks.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by michaelmrose on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:04PM (#22328633)

Firefox for android has addons including ublock origin. There ARE adblockers that work on the system level and block ads in apps but

- You can't selectively turn it off for a certain page

- You have to root the phone

- It's easier just to never install apps with in app ads.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by taborj on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:46PM (#22329648)

> You have to root the phone

Allow me to introduce you to Blokada: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.blokada.alarm/

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by Zenbit_UX on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:57PM (#22331283)

Allow me to introduce you to nextdns.io. Simple DNS level blocking on any device... (not affiliated, just a fan)

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by taborj on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:18PM (#22336865)

Yup. My point is, you don't need to have a rooted phone to get ad blocking.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by oefrha on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:54PM (#22328547)

I see political ads a hell lot when I use the YouTube iOS client. No need to watch TV or use social networks.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by m_ke on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:58PM (#22328583)

YouTube premium has no ads, which comes with a paid YouTube music plan.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by scohesc on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:16PM (#22328735)

Is it against the rules here to recommend anybody with an android phone to get ahold of Youtube Vanced? Someone took the youtube APK, and gutted out all the ads and unlocked youtube premium features for free if you're willing to sideload it.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by usui on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:28PM (#22328861)

I will second this. Vanced is a great tweaked YouTube app that I am grateful people put the time to make. Getting it to act like the normal YouTube app required tinkering. I noticed that web links used the default app even after setting Vanced as the default. To fix this, I had to remove the original YouTube app and stop it from auto-updating.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by oefrha on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:13PM (#22328703)

Well, I don’t watch enough YouTube these days to justify a subscription, and I already have a separate music streaming subscription.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#22328806)

Use lockdown on your iPhone... and uBlock on Firefox on Android.

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