What happened to my FB?

[cilla4progress]

When I open it on my laptop now, fully 1/3 is ads! I had to clear my cache and reboot, etc. View is completely changed and I'm ready to meh it... especially with the news about them selling ads to Russian bots / election disruptors or whatever.

[Warpy]

1. I suppose you could try Ghostery

and turn all the trackers and ad bots off. A lot of pages won't load if you do that, so be careful with it.

[Hortensis]

3. See Ilsa. Set some basic standards for what is acceptable. And not!

[Ilsa]

2. I've considered closing my fb page.

Rat bastards selling their souls to putin.

[Egnever]

4. Nothing

Working as intended.

They figure you will put up with it.

[Skittles]

10. which they will

because they are hooked and that piece of shit site knows it

[CountAllVotes]

5. Briefly had a FB page

I hated it & got rid of it after about one long long week! Hellish thing the FB is!

[lindysalsagal]

9. Been a fb boycotter from the beginning.

Nithing good can come from it.

[CurtEastPoint]

13. FB has been a wonderful way for our neighborhood to stay connected and

exchange information and seek whatever. Example:

Who has some rosemary I can come clip?

And even more mundane stuff.

[Lucinda]

6. Mine was fine just now... n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

7. strongly advise using FluffBusterPurity to control FB ads, notifications, etc.

It makes it SO much more pleasant.

http://www.fbpurity.com/

Free.

[m-lekktor]

11. I use it as well. I haven't seen an ad on facebook for quite some time!nt

[cilla4progress]

8. Well, I just went through their help

info which states there is an opt-out provision, but it failed when FB's instructions did not correspond to the cookies instructions available to me on Chrome. Arghh!

[Srkdqltr]

12. Ads ads ads

I understand that ads are needed to fund but most sites are so ad filled they are not readable. Even HuffPost and DU.. DU to a lesser extent, have so many ads it's hard to find the news. The local online newspaper starts off with a covering ad that is crazy and the little movie things follow down the page. I have been on FB almost from the start and love reading online stuff but the ads are becoming overwhelming and some are gross. I'm not ready to quit reading online but it's getting close. Good thing I'm old. LOL

[cilla4progress]

14. If you donate to DU

You don't get ads!

[RandomAccess]

15. I use a Chrome extension

called AdBlock.

LOVE it, and almost couldn't do the internet without it.

Edited: I should add that occasionally I have to whitelist a site or turn it off in order to actually see the content I'm interested in, but that's a small price to pay.