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A lot of people have been making a lot of noise about how much information is gathered about us on social media and through whatever operating system you're using.

Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

You may think you are discreet about your political views. But Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has come up with its own determination of your political leanings, based on your activity on the site.

And now, it is easy to find out how Facebook has categorized you — as very liberal or very conservative, or somewhere in between.

Try this (it works best on your desktop computer):

Go to facebook.com/ads/preferences on your browser. (You may have to log in to Facebook first.)

That will bring you to a page with your ad preferences. Under the “Interests” header, click the “Lifestyle and Culture” tab.

Then look for a box titled “US Politics.” In parentheses, it will describe how Facebook has categorized you, such as liberal, moderate or conservative.

(If the “US Politics” box does not show up, click the “See more” button under the grid of boxes.)

Facebook makes a deduction about your political views based on the pages that you like — or on your political preference, if you stated one, on your profile page. If you like the page for Hillary Clinton, Facebook might categorize you as a liberal.~

I don't know why anyone would be surprised by this Microsoft and Facebook are private companies and if you use their shit then of course they are going to gather info on you in order to maximize their revenue through ads.

The internet has become really nothing more than a revenue generating machine.

I checked and Facebook categorizes me as "very conservative" which is true. So their unwelcome ads target me with all kinds of crap that if I was really interested in then I would search for them myself.
But, other than constantly hitting the "hide ad" tab, what are you gonna do?

I like being listed as very conservative on their platform though because it pretty much forces them to try and pander to my preferences. As a groveling left wing echo chamber it must really chap their ass.

Facebook's War on Ad Blockers

Probably one of the most useful tools out there if you surf the web is Ad Block Pro. Since I've installed it on my Chrome Browser I've really enjoyed my web experience.
My biggest complaint is not really ads per se but the ones that constantly block content and force you to dismiss them several times before getting to what you want to read.
If they confined themselves to the sidebars or above and below the content then I'm fine with them.
Also the ones that causes a lag with loading the page can be really annoying.

But since Facebook considers themselves wiser than everyone else they are going to find a way to force ads on us.

Meta-web: Facebook is now blocking ad blockers

I would think that by forcing ads on us Facebook will become more like network TV, you'll get a little content with your wall of commercials.

I would suppose as a private company the argument could be made that they should have the power to decide content. But before long it'll pretty much be like the lame networks who create content based on the funniest or most embarrassing commercials.

Leave it to Facebook to find a way to take the "social" out of social network.