I have never (and will never) use Threads. This ad on Facebook shows a screenshot clearly depicting someone having commented on a photo of mine that doesn’t exist. Deceptive, garbage marketing practices from a deceptive garbage tech company. It’s extremely easy to see a tech-illiterate person creating a Threads account just to see what photo of them is on there and who is commenting on it.
And before anyone mentions it, yes I use Facebook. Very minimally. My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.
Maybe this is just me but doesn’t it look like the comment was “Has commented on your photo”
I have never (and will never) use Threads.
Your instance is federating with threads though, and you seem to have image posts. Maybe Meta managed to figure out that your Facebook and Lemmy accounts are both you and is referring to a Lemmy post of yours federated to Threads?
this mfr just raw dogging the internet without an ad block
I don’t have enough technical knowledge to know how to trust a provider or make my own.
Ads are basically invisible to me now anyway. Theyre just instructions on where to click or to keep scrolling.
trust a provider? wut?
literally just install ublock origin, that’s it
If its free, that means youre not the customer youre the product. Im not tech savvy enough to know what kind of product I am with something like that.
I wouldn’t know how to even begin finding out.
so why precisely are you using a free lemmy instance? shouldn’t you be selfhosting that?
I guess its where you draw the line on what’s an acceptable level. I don’t think either of us will be downloading HALFLIFE3BETA.EXE from thepiratebay, even though all you have to do is install it and thats it.
Adblockers don’t work on facebook. They deliberately obfuscate html, screen readers also don’t work there for the same reason. If you still have an account check it in the inspector, they put each letter in a separate div and do other shenangians
Hey cool, another reason to continue never using Facebook.
Use ReVanced for fucking sake.
Like the other person said, blockers on iOS don’t block in-app ads for the most part (in my experience). I do use AdGuard for what it’s worth and the only thing I’m raw dogging is my wife.
Try nextdns (ie. Addblock at the DNS level). It won’t work for facebook. But works for most apps.
But does nextdns work for his wife?
we’re already in possession of all your data and published it in a way that you didn’t even know existed, might as well try to fuck this lady
Because it shows 4 likes, I would take it to mean this is Meta showing you a post that is the text “Commented on your photo”. This is still engagement bait, but not necessarily Meta’s fault (depending on your perspective). I don’t know how they select which posts to show you like this.
I see similar things on TikTok. People make their lives’ preview say things like “friends are watching” or “mentioned you” to try to make you think the user entered text is actually a notification.
It’s even possible these engagement baiters found a way to get Meta more likely to show their posts through ads like this to get more eyes in their content.
You see ads, that’s your error.
We should not have to filter deceptive ads by a major company. It is attempted fraud.
My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.
That’s kinda the entire reason I use Facebook nowadays, too… and WhatsApp because everyone in my family is too lazy to switch to Signal
It really sucks. And like every second post is an add. Urgh
The threads ads I used to get scrolling through Instagram always showed prepubescent children which was really freaky.
My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.
Why feel compelled to defend yourself? Use it and accept that you support it - or don’t. No need to apologize to us, you’re not going to convince us that your use case is special or that phone calls and texting don’t exist.
I have never (and will never) use Threads. … Deceptive, garbage marketing practices from a deceptive garbage tech company.
Unfortunately, you use Facebook, which means you do support these practices. How much or how little you use Facebook doesn’t factor into it. Tangentially, it also means you use Threads, because using Facebook means you use anything Zuck wants you use. That’s literally how it works.
Edit: and of course the apologists come out with a nice little soundbite reply that completely ignores what I said here, which, to reiterate, is: defending yourself is a waste of your time because we’re going to “attack” you anyway. Using Facebook is bad for society and you should stop doing it.
Why feel compelled to defend yourself?
[Begins attacking]
Lmfao
You can’t use phone calls or texting when your family lives in the other side of the globe. Many parents are not tech savvy for them to be able to use something else if you aren’t there to set it up. Lot’s of them got into Facebook, and their friends are there, and we need to be there for them to reach us. It’s the network effect.
Also for many parents, internet = Facebook. They don’t even use emails, or any other services for that matter, maybe news websites that are bookmarked in their browser years ago by their children.
Everybody who refuses to use Facebook has to make the same sacrifices that people who do not refuse to use it do not make. No amount of exposition will make us feel better about the fact Facebook continues to exist and contribute to the ruin of society in part because you are not willing to inconvenience yourselves like we already have.
