[This is a joint post with Grant Storey, a Princeton undergraduate who is working with me on a tool to help users understand Facebook’s targeted advertising.] Facebook announced two days ago that it would make its ads indistinguishable from regular posts, and hence impossible to block. But within hours, the developers of Adblock Plus released an […]
Can Facebook really make ads unblockable?
August 11, 2016 by Arvind Narayanan
Filed Under: Censorship & Filtering, Privacy & Security Tagged With: ad blocking, Advertising, Privacy, transparency, webprivacy_feed, WPM