"Facebook says it is taking steps to ensure video ads that appear on its site “are as good as other content people see in their News Feeds.”"<p>My buttocks randomly bouncing up and down the keyboard could produce better content than most of the stuff I saw on my news feed when I was on facebook, so that's not exactly going to be difficult...<p>More seriously and with (slightly) less snark, I'm always shocked when I surf the internet at work with no ad-blocker. Pop-ups, irritating garish backgrounds, "content" plastered everywhere, and of course, annoying video ads. Its like a bad episode of Futurama; some horrible dystopian disfigurement of the internet.<p>I honestly don't know how people put up with it.<p>And the other thing that gets me is why don't government/private business install ad-blockers by default? For these large corporations or institutions, I imagine a significant percentage of bandwidth is wasted on "content" (and i use that word in its loosest possible sense) no one really wants to access...
FB is clearly gasping for every last bit of money lately. Other day I saw nearly every ad on right of my page like it was a porn website. Each ad features scantly naked women with captions like "She wants you now". When you click on those links you land of completely irrelevant websites trying to push some maleware.
Yeah, I called it as soon as they started auto-playing friends' videos in our news feeds. They were clearly just getting us accustomed to the idea of stopping scrolling so they know we'll see these ads.
Seen on the Register:<p>Phase 3: Increasingly desperate attempts to monetize the user base. A short but pivotal phase of the social network lifespan that quickly slides into:<p>Phase 4: The vicious spiral of lame.
Hey, that's great, because I can close the tab or even the browser in less than three seconds, and make a noise like "fuck you farcebook"!