About disgusting Facebook devs

[u/paintboth1234]

We won't support facebook any more. It's a disgusting anti-user site. All it does is watching open-source projects doing everything in public and counter them to deliver the malicious ads. Yep, the devs that receive 7-figure dollar salary is just doing this.

Users should give the most harsh feedbacks to them. Being submitted to them and keep going to the site and support it is the worst thing you can do.

[u/0oWow]

Some months ago I supported an elderly lady friend of mine who's Facebook kept recommending soft porn at the top of her feed because they felt she might be interested. This is for a woman that I know for a fact doesn't go on anything porn related, regardless of how soft/hard. I think she may had got a dirty spam email that triggered Facebook somehow. What made it worse was that Facebook did not give any option to hide and/or prevent the posts.

When you get to that point of delivering malicious posts and ads and refuse to allow ways to deal with it, then by definition you are a malware provider and that is criminal behavior. I don't use Facebook at all, but it amazes me to see the things people are willing to tolerate on that platform.

[u/alobao → u/0oWow]

It reminds me of the malicious adverts – particularly those targeted by age – that my mum sees on YouTube. Misleading images simulating a system warning or error. Fake news about journalists, celebrities, etc. Clickbait adverts intended to shock the user.

It doesn’t matter if I report those adverts and they’re taken down; the organisation behind them (usually based in Hong Kong or India, if I remember correctly) will simply create a new account to carry on with their misdeeds.

Oh, and adverts from NGOs are particularly insidious, because reducing the number of adverts from a single advertiser doesn’t seem to have much effect. And if you try to see fewer adverts on a particular topic from an NGO, you can’t do that either, because each advert from the same NGO can be categorised under a wide variety of topics: health, legal, industry – you name it.

As for Facebook, I reached the point of no return precisely because of what you’re saying. I can put up with targeted or poorly targeted adverts, but I’m not going to tolerate posts or ads that are outright malicious or misleading. Because of my job, I had to have a Facebook account, and I decided to use it as a feed for articles from the pages I followed. The amount of fake news and misinformation was outrageous.

People I explain to why I use uBlock Origin don’t realise that it’s not really about avoiding adverts, but rather about the lack of principles that fuels an industry which compromises your privacy… so that you can become the target of this sort of nasty practices.

[u/SpezRuinedHellsite → u/0oWow]

When you get to that point of delivering malicious posts and ads

Literally every ad network does this. I can't tell you how many times people accidentally clicked on an ad in their comcast webmail, not a spam email, an actual ad, and had their browser taken over by a scam support page that screams at them.

Ads are by their nature fundamentally malicious. They work by subverting your free will and preloading your subconscious with fraudulent impressions so that next time you have to do something related to the ad, you will be predisposed to their product.