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Its not that I don't believe your general point but I would be interested in evidence that you're getting more than 1 in a row. I am $50MM+/year spender on Met

Its not that I don't believe your general point but I would be interested in evidence that you're getting more than 1 in a row. I am $50MM+/year spender on Meta ads and while I know that ad load is up I don't think its up that much where ads run alongside each other. If you can show me evidence of this I will make a big fucking deal of this to Meta.

DavidPeiffer 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I went through my results on m.facebook.com. I really need to get ad blocking on mobile going again. Post, ad, post, ad, reels (which I've never intentionally clicked), ad, 3 posts, (ad, 2 posts) repeated indefinitely. My wife, through the Facebook app, had a roughly similar pattern, though with far more suggested groups.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  What’s an effective way to block FB ads on a mobile browser?
  - DavidPeiffer 4y ago
    Late reply, but Firefox allows the uBlock Origin extension to run.
gnicholas 4y ago
Email is in profile; I'm happy to send you screenshots. I regularly get 2 ads back-to-back, and I recently got three in a row. I typically bail when I see two in a row, in a vain attempt to send the message that multiple ads back-to-back is not cool. edit: just logged in and of the first 20 timeline items, 9 were ads (including two cases of back-to-back ads). It's basically half of what I see.
- winrid 4y ago
  I just checked and right now it looks like every other post in my feed is an ad, with some ads having 2-3 posts in between. I wonder if you don't follow a lot of pages or something, so it's breaking the algorithm.
  - gnicholas 4y ago
    You’re right that I don’t follow many pages. But I have plenty of friends, with plenty of activity (and I don’t check FB often, so there’s a lot they could show me when I do).
astrange 4y ago
I get a normal amount of ads on Instagram, but half of them are for tshirts with a video of a shirtless fat guy, and the other half are for Viagra. It ignores me every time I dismiss them.
HDThoreaun 4y ago
Ads shown were up 21% last quarter on minimal user growth to make up for cost per ad going down 17% according to earnings report. Facebook is absolutely shoving as much ads in as they can at this point.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  Interesting that cost per ad went down. I wonder what happened to the click-through-rate as users had so many more ads shoved in their faces. It's possible that ads are now cheaper, but also less effective. I only ever did pay per click because impressions mean nothing to a startup that no one has ever heard of. But it was always hard to break out of the default settings that were pay per impression.
Ancalagon 4y ago
Commenting because I want to see this drama unfold in the future.
gnicholas 4y ago
Update: today I was shown 8 ads in a row on FB. The first two ads were for the same storage company (but at different locations). I was shocked to see this pairing, as well as the sheer magnitude of the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back ads. I took a screen capture video, if you want to see it. Makes me wonder if the troubles at Meta run deeper than the current layoffs will solve.

DavidPeiffer 4y ago

Out of curiosity, I went through my results on m.facebook.com. I really need to get ad blocking on mobile going again. Post, ad, post, ad, reels (which I've never intentionally clicked), ad, 3 posts, (ad, 2 posts) repeated indefinitely. My wife, through the Facebook app, had a roughly similar pattern, though with far more suggested groups.

gnicholas 4y ago
What’s an effective way to block FB ads on a mobile browser?
- DavidPeiffer 4y ago
  Late reply, but Firefox allows the uBlock Origin extension to run.

gnicholas 4y ago

Email is in profile; I'm happy to send you screenshots. I regularly get 2 ads back-to-back, and I recently got three in a row. I typically bail when I see two in a row, in a vain attempt to send the message that multiple ads back-to-back is not cool. edit: just logged in and of the first 20 timeline items, 9 were ads (including two cases of back-to-back ads). It's basically half of what I see.

winrid 4y ago
I just checked and right now it looks like every other post in my feed is an ad, with some ads having 2-3 posts in between. I wonder if you don't follow a lot of pages or something, so it's breaking the algorithm.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  You’re right that I don’t follow many pages. But I have plenty of friends, with plenty of activity (and I don’t check FB often, so there’s a lot they could show me when I do).

astrange 4y ago

I get a normal amount of ads on Instagram, but half of them are for tshirts with a video of a shirtless fat guy, and the other half are for Viagra. It ignores me every time I dismiss them.

HDThoreaun 4y ago

Ads shown were up 21% last quarter on minimal user growth to make up for cost per ad going down 17% according to earnings report. Facebook is absolutely shoving as much ads in as they can at this point.

gnicholas 4y ago
Interesting that cost per ad went down. I wonder what happened to the click-through-rate as users had so many more ads shoved in their faces. It's possible that ads are now cheaper, but also less effective. I only ever did pay per click because impressions mean nothing to a startup that no one has ever heard of. But it was always hard to break out of the default settings that were pay per impression.

Ancalagon 4y ago

Commenting because I want to see this drama unfold in the future.

gnicholas 4y ago

Update: today I was shown 8 ads in a row on FB. The first two ads were for the same storage company (but at different locations). I was shocked to see this pairing, as well as the sheer magnitude of the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back ads. I took a screen capture video, if you want to see it. Makes me wonder if the troubles at Meta run deeper than the current layoffs will solve.