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This browser extension makes it harder for Facebook advertisers to target you

Aug17
by on August 17, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A trio of Mozilla Fellows recently released a browser extension designed to keep Facebook‘s advertisers from pigeonholing you. We’ve argued that Facebook should pay users for their data, but in lieu of that, at least this tool makes it harder for the social network to exploit it. Fuzzify.me is a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox that collects information as you browse Facebook. It shows you which advertisements you’ve seen and, if available, gives Facebook‘s reason for showing the ad. It features single-click access to your Facebook ad settings and an interface that allows for bulk removal from categories. Facebook relies…

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This browser extension makes it harder for Facebook advertisers to target you

Aug17
by on August 17, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A trio of Mozilla Fellows recently released a browser extension designed to keep Facebook‘s advertisers from pigeonholing you. We’ve argued that Facebook should pay users for their data, but in lieu of that, at least this tool makes it harder for the social network to exploit it. Fuzzify.me is a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox that collects information as you browse Facebook. It shows you which advertisements you’ve seen and, if available, gives Facebook‘s reason for showing the ad. It features single-click access to your Facebook ad settings and an interface that allows for bulk removal from categories. Facebook relies…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

This browser extension makes it harder for Facebook advertisers to target you

Aug17
by on August 17, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A trio of Mozilla Fellows recently released a browser extension designed to keep Facebook‘s advertisers from pigeonholing you. We’ve argued that Facebook should pay users for their data, but in lieu of that, at least this tool makes it harder for the social network to exploit it. Fuzzify.me is a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox that collects information as you browse Facebook. It shows you which advertisements you’ve seen and, if available, gives Facebook‘s reason for showing the ad. It features single-click access to your Facebook ad settings and an interface that allows for bulk removal from categories. Facebook relies…

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Pornhub subsidiary wants to pay you cryptocurrency for watching porn – but don’t get too excited

Aug17
by on August 17, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Adult entertainment streaming service Tube8 – a Pornhub subsidiary with over 150 million page visits each month – wants to reward your porn-watching habits with cryptocurrency… so it is putting its entire platform on the blockchain. In a note exclusively shared with Hard Fork, the company revealed it has entered an agreement with Vice Industry Token (VIT) that will see its platform entirely tokenized. The collaboration will enable users to earn VIT tokens for streaming and interacting with Tube8 videos. The token implementation is expected to take place by the end of the year. The move will make Tube8 the…

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Heroic vandal massively improves Facebook’s bus shelter adverts

Aug17
by on August 17, 2018 at 3:24 pm
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Facebook, bruised by the Cambridge Analytica scandal and fifteen years of unmitigated dickery, is currently in the process of trying to rehabilitate its image. As the saying goes, you can’t polish a turd, but god knows Zuckerberg is willing to try. In the UK, Facebook’s weapon of choice in its crisis comms war is an advertising blitz previously unheard of from a social network, which has seen it spend millions across TV, digital, and street adverts. Right now, you can’t walk down the street without being confronted with a big bus stop advert from Facebook, talking about how it’s unfriended…

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