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paulzolo

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Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed


	Quote: Get ready for advertising in your Facebook news feed. The company has launched Facebook Offers, which aims to bring Groupon-like deals to users of the social networking site. Facebook will roll out the functionality to page owners gradually over the next few months.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166382 ... c.rss_main

Well, I guess this is inevitable. Not too sure about this bit through:


	Quote: Facebook Offers is part of a broader strategy to make ads look less conspicuous. The company believes that by making an ad look more like a post, users will be more likely to click. Facebook employed a similar strategy with “Sponsored Stories.” Those ads use content posted by your friends about a product or company to make them appear as an endorsement.

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Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:20 am

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Re: Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed

I can block people or groups from being mentioned in my news feed. I wonder if I'll be able to block these ads?
I'm guessing not.

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Re: Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed

Another reason why I am glad I don't use Facebook...

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Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:48 am

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Re: Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed

Will be interesting to see if Adblock Plus can deal with them.

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Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:53 am

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Re: Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed


	jonlumb wrote: Will be interesting to see if Adblock Plus can deal with them.

If not, I suspect it will be able to very soon after Facebook updates to include them.

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:37 am

paulzolo

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Re: Coming Soon: Ad offers in your Facebook news feed

Social Fixer for Safari may be able to filter them out. However, as we are talking about stuff in the regular stream, then maybe not as, I am guessing, the ads will be deliberately harder to spot - and that may apply to the underlying HTML/CSS as well as the general content.

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