Previously, in order to be served Facebook ads you had to be a Facebook user and be logged in on whatever device you were browsing from. With today’s announcement that all changes.
It’s a business move that looks to expand upon the $5 billion that the company has already earned through advertising in this last quarter alone, as well as increasing the social network’s reach beyond the 1.65 billion users it claims to access each month.
So what does this mean for the average Joe web user? If they already have a Facebook profile, nothing much here will change — but those trying to avoid
This new ad service extends Facebook’s reach across the entire internet and ad-supported mobile app marketplace, making it harder than ever (nearly impossible, really) to avoid being tracked, profiled, and sold by
It’s not all bad though: The ads that you do see should be more relevant to you and your interests. This is something that may make the browsing experience less annoying, even if the ad network’s ability to predict what we are interested in is a little creepy.
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