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    #32
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 22,017 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    what's "boards"?

    What you are on now

    ******



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    #33
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,096 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    its not free!

    You obviously didn't copy and paste that post that was going around a few years ago. They don't charge me and they've no right to use my photos. Always copy and paste, amen.


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    #34
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    citytillidie wrote: »
    What you are on now

    I'm on my phone now.


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    #35
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,877 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    PARlance wrote:
    You obviously didn't copy and paste that post that was going around a few years ago. They don't charge me and they've no right to use my photos. Always copy and paste, amen.


    Don't matter what laws are there, companies such as Facebook can just more or less ignore them


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    #36
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Big Brother is watching you!


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    #37
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    The ads on facebook never really bothered me until recently. There just seem to be more and more of them. Along with 'sponsored features'.
    Gets harder to see actual real people updates. But sure - it's free.


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    #38
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    What annoys me is the way advertising pops up because a FB contact likes the page...not the ad/post itself, just the page.

    So if a contact has ever liked, say, Trivago's FB page, I get all their updates, each one headed with 'XYZ likes Trivago'.

    But that 'Hide all notifications from...' is easy.


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    #39
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I keep getting hair replacement adverts.... I have thick hair down to my shoulders and i dont search that kind of thing.


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    #40
    benjamin d
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    Facebook is basically just a ****ty news aggregator for me nowadays. My friends rarely post anything, so all I get are the news stories they like or articles from pages I've liked. It's pretty irrelevant to me as a platform yet I'm on the bloody thing every day!


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    #41
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,277 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    If you click above the ad to the right theirs away you can not ask to similar ads again.


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    #42
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    If you click above the ad to the right theirs away you can not ask to similar ads again.
    They will just be replaced with more ads though, the volume won't change.


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    #43
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,277 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    osarusan wrote: »
    They will just be replaced with more ads though, the volume won't change.

    I got the impression tough the OP's problem was they didn't want to see ads about keeping the 8th amendment. They might be able to get these to disappear.


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    #44
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I got the impression tough the OP's problem was they didn't want to see ads about keeping the 8th amendment. They might be able to get these to disappear.

    Yeah, sorry, forgot what the OP was about!


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    #45
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I complained a while back that I'd been doing a search for a certain company -in- my workplace, on a workplace computer...come home, turn on the laptop and what company is now advertising on whatever webpage I was on? Yeah, and that company is a large one, but very specialised and not likely to be randomly there.

    Possible that I spoke aloud about it beforehand, the google record thing I don't trust a bit.

    It's pretty easy to turn it on accidentally on your phone as well. Try to avoid saying "Okay Google" out loud! ("Okay, google "is a duck an avian" then..")


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If you're signed in on one Google account and then on the same Google account at home, then I believe the cookies transfer across.


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    #47
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Jesus Wept wrote: »
    Their ads are based on your internet searches. :pac::pac::pac:
    Ya dirty fecker!

    gas :P

    I was referring more to ones implying abortion is murder and how same sex marriage will lead to the downfall of humanity haha. Saucy enough


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    #48
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If you hide the ads, they'll display a reason as to why you were targeted. The pro-life ones I hid informed me that their targeted demographic was people who had lived in Ireland recently or living in Ireland currently and fit into the 18-65 age bracket.

    If a website has a tracking code called a Facebook pixel running in the background, then this allows Facebook to track what you do on that site. If you received an ad based on a site you've visited, this is likely why.

    It's both alarming and fascinating to see how powerful Facebook's advertising platform is.

    Jesus


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    #49
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oooooooops. Looks like your interest is leading to paranoia and conspiracy theories!

    Facebook is making me pro life, is it funded by US abortion clinic bombers?

    Doubt many people will be convinced, they see it as it is, right wing biased rubbish. Not getting any pro choice ones funnily enough. US money involved with targeted advertising against the SSR is well documented.


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    #50
    [Deleted User]
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    diograis wrote: »
    Jesus

    Oh yea, it allows for a crazy amount to be done in the background. But that's generally why you would see advertisements on Facebook after visiting different websites. You can actually download extensions for Google Chrome (probably Firefox too) that will show you if a site uses a Facebook Pixel and whether it is active.


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    #51
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    diograis wrote: »
    giving a voice to literally any idiot's uninformed opinion on a subject
    Are we talking about boards?



    The reason FB is free is that you/we/us are the product being sold.

    fremium-model2.jpg


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    #52
    shoegal1
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭shoegal1


    Check out FBPurity.com. I haven't had any adds on FB in a few years. Best add-on ever. Filters out sh1t ya don't wanna see and gives you the option to see if a friend deletes you. Mighty job.


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    #53
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I get those pro-life ads too, I get that it's because I engage with the debate but it is still irritating.

    Given that I follow pages like Abortion Rights Campaign, **** Youth Defence Says, Rebels for Repeal and so on the algorithm that decided I'm the target audience needs some work tbh.

    I also wonder how the pricing is tiered, is it more expensive to have a targeted campaign or ones like the pro-life ones that are aimed at all adults in Ireland and have massive visibility.

    I don't think I've ever seen an ad from a pro-choice page or anything from them if I wasn't already following the page.

    I'd be interested to hear if any pro-life FBers here have been getting pro-choice ads in their feed, almost daily?


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    #54
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,277 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Koa Slimy Gazelle wrote: »

    I'd be interested to hear if any pro-life FBers here have been getting pro-choice ads in their feed, almost daily?

    I'd follow neither pro life or pro choice sides on facebook. The odd time I might click into their Facebook pages.
    I seem to have more friends into the pro life pages but their was a time I got loads of stuff popping up about those repeal jumpers!


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