I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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How does one block a post from a friend with an ad-blocker? Do some of your friends type like shills? Is Facebook making numbers up for fun?
I saw sometimes ads that was claiming that one of my friends like that product too. My bet is on that.
BTW: I stayed using user script to remove recommendations, suggestions and other crap like that. It makes Facebook so much more bearable but interestingly also feels less addictive.
What is User Script please? I have to use Facebook, and all the crap is frying what’s left of my brain.
They probably are detecting your ad blocker, and choosing to block random posts as a strange kind of disciplinary behavior.
I’d still take half content without ads over full content with ads. Not like I know what I’m not seeing so can’t I really miss it?
This is it. This is how these companies think.
It’s probably made-up garbage. If they knew my ad-blocker had actually blocked a friend, I’m sure they would have found a way not to get anything blocked.
Or alternatively they are now displaying some friend’s posts on the same channel normally reserved for ad networks so they are indistinguishable via software? But then it should be way more than one, unless this is some early A/B testing crap.
Sounds they detect adblock and then hide friends posts.