http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/technology/so-much-for-sharing-his-like.html
On Facebook, Your "Likes" Become Ads
By Patrick Follow Fri, 1 Jun 2012, 12:33pm 974 views 13 comments
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I love targeted advertising, its awsome.
People complain about it and want to 'hide their age, location, interests' WELL you are free to watch ads for feminine products when you are a dude (thats an untargeted ad). I prefer watching ads of shit I just bought on amazon, its way better!
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I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, but what a sleazy tactic to advertise a product.
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Patrick says
Well, duh! Isn't that the whole point of "Likes" on Facebook? And isn't that the whole reason there's no "Dislikes" button? It's all about pushing products.
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Patrick says
What's really sad is when you "likes" something and its competitor advertises that you use that product.
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So - don't "like" facebook. I also don't "like" being used to pay a geek a few billion dollars. Maybe I'm wrong, but it'll go the way of myspace & aol...
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Highly targeted advertising is a good thing overall, IMHO. Ads are much less annoying when they are for things that you might actually want.
BUT I want to have real control over what personal info they use to target those ads. Using your "Likes" and not telling you (or telling you halfway through a 4,000 word user that agreement no one reads, same thing) is just not quite ethical.
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Every update I get from Facebook (today) for my Android based smartphone, makes FB slower and slower. Who develops crap like this? Where are all these smart (?) kids doing development work for FB?
I can put an application into INSPECT and within a couple hours, at most, tell you what the problem is and have it fixed.
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What I don't understand is that I'll be on some websites where my fb icon (the doggie, same as here) is there, along with a note begging for my comment. I have all that shit blocked.
I'm an intensely private person - having lived through an event where I participated in a federal investigation of a nursing home where the administrator's live-in friend was guilty of abuse for 3 years running... you haven't lived until a private detective sits outside your house on a block with only 7 houses on it, waiting for you do do something they can use in their defense of the charges. I don't use my name on pretty much anything.
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Sites that have your Facebook icon are using "Facebook Connect":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_connect#Facebook_Connect
Facbook Connect detects that you are logged in to Facebook and shares your info with that other website. The other website gets the benefit that you don't need to register or log in to comment, but in return, Facebook gets yet more traffic from (and info about) you.
I think the only way to stop it is to log out of Facebook.
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SAN FRANCISCO — On Valentine’s Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant.
Seeing how he is in San Francisco, I wonder exactly what kind of lube it was.
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Actual product on Amazon is here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MR3IVO
Reviews are entertaining.
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PockyClipsNow says
I wish it worked better.
The other day I was looking for Gwar videos and got an ad for Room Fresheners.
Perhaps it is oddly appropriate...
zzyzzx says
ROTFL.
"Now, in Brothel-size"
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Its a good reason to not "Like" anything on Facebook - when I first got an account, I did it a few times, but I never do it anymore - I don't want my name used to plug stuff to my friends.