


And if that’s not enough, advertisers will also gain the power to poll you about what you thought of them.

The latest? Facebook is now pitching a program by which advertisers can market their products across TV and Facebook as a unified whole, so that a trailer for the latest James Bond movie, for example, might run at halftime of “Monday Night Football”-or on news feeds of users who have “liked” a previous Bond flick. Track your own history with Facebook’s Activity Log. Want to share baby pictures? Ping a friend to meet up after work? Chances are that you’re making those connections on Facebook-connections that Facebook knows and can exploit for its gain. But because most of Facebook’s 1.49 billion users routinely access the service through an app, the ads cannot be hidden using one of the many blocker tools now topping the download charts on Apple’s App Store.” – BloombergĪt this point, Facebook represents its own self-contained ecosystem. “…Facebook trackers are just about everywhere on the Internet.
