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The Persuader

My personal blog, started in 2006. No paid posts.



« Facebook’s ad preferences’ page and user archive tell totally different stories about their tracking | Cambridge Analytica is merely Facebook’s ‘smaller, less ambitious sibling’ »

10.04.2018

5 Responses to ‘Turned alcohol ads off in Facebook? Did you honestly think they’d respect that?’

1. You can post two-minute videos in Instagram, but no one will ever see them « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog says:

   25.04.2018 at 23.24

   […] Turned alcohol ads off in Facebook? Did you honestly think they’d respect that? […]

2. It’s not a rumour: longer Instagram videos are already here « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog says:

   08.06.2018 at 11.28

   […] comes with a load of Facebook-linked privacy issues. Just today it fired through another alcohol ad despite my having turned them off in my settings, again underlining Facebook’s blatant dishonesty.    Yet here I am, still using one of […]

3. More lies: Instagram’s separate (and now possibly secret) set of ad preferences « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog says:

   02.09.2018 at 10.56

   […] That is a lie, and it’s still a lie even as of today (with an ad for Johnnie Walker in my feed). I turned off alcohol advertising in Facebook ages ago, and it’s made no difference to what I see o…    What it doesn’t tell you is that Instagram keeps its own set of advertising […]

4. YouTube tracks you even when you’ve signed out and blocked their cookies « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog says:

   03.12.2018 at 12.49

   […] terms and conditions for YouTube to get away with this.    It’s exactly like Facebook, which says you can opt out of certain categories of advertising (e.g. alcohol), then serve you adver….    It’s exactly like Google, which in 2009 said you could opt out of ad customization, […]

5. Facebook takes away user control over their own advertising preferences « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog says:

   15.11.2019 at 06.39

   […] if I export my Facebook data, but that’s another story.    And remember when I said I opted out of alcohol ads, yet I still see plenty, especially from Heineken, which has even uploaded my email and private […]