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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by CharlesW on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:18PM (#32524992)
The mafia metaphor seems pretty on the nose to me. If you have a page, its posts will not regularly appear in followers' feeds — that is, the feeds of people who've explicitly signaled that they want to see your content — unless you give Facebook their vig.
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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by vineyardmike on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:12PM (#32527215)
Most people probably subscribe to more pages (and therefore more posts) than they can actually consume the content of. It seems pragmatic that something should help the user surface more meaningful content. Suppressing commercial pages for friends content seems reasonable, and business v business is a decision where there will always be a loser.
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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by marketerinland on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:54AM (#32529188)
Just a quick fyi - On the nose means something different.
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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by CharlesW on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:59AM (#32529217)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_nose

Above, I’m using it to mean “appropriate”.

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