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ThanksFRAUD Day

By Karl Denninger
2017-11-22 13:48

I often write on the plethora of US-based frauds and scams, both political and business-oriented.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232607

Facebook, it appears from my work, to be deliberately detecting the use of ad blockers and then gaming their software so as to just meet the so-called "deliverable" standard for ads to people who have blocked them. That is, since I have a blocker on my desktop I would not normally generate any revenue for Facebook from advertisers. But I have observed, in a 100% repeatable manner, that a "display" ad will remain visible until the minimum pixel count and time is met (1 second, etc) and then disappear and a video ad will do so for 2 seconds with 100% pixels -- and then likewise disappear. In other words the company is billing the advertisers for content they know damn well I blocked and never see. What do you call billing someone for something they don't get on purpose, because that's what it looks like to me. Oh, and how many billions have been taken from advertisers this way? Nobody but Zuckerpig knows but I bet it's not a small number.