{"id":175377,"date":"2016-08-10T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175377"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:35:54","slug":"facebook-to-bypass-ad-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175377-facebook-to-bypass-ad-blockers.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to bypass ad blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2016\/08\/a-new-way-to-control-the-ads-you-see-on-facebook-and-an-update-on-ad-blocking\/\"><strong>Facebook said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will show ads on Facebook desktop for people who use ad blocking software.<\/p>\n<p>This means the company has found a way to bypass ad blockers &#8211; but how it has achieved this is not known.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will also give users\u00a0more control over the ads they see on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve designed our ad formats, ad performance, and controls to address the underlying reasons people have turned to ad blocking software,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we asked people about why they used ad blocking software, the primary reason we heard was to stop annoying, disruptive ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it is not paying ad blocking companies to bypass their services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re putting control in people\u2019s hands with our updated ad preferences and our other advertising controls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174916-facebook-fighting-clickbait.html\"><strong>Facebook fighting clickbait<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/173768-facebook-attracts-1-71-billion-monthly-users.html\"><strong>Facebook attracts 1.71 billion monthly users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/133774-facebooks-solar-powered-plane-that-beams-down-internet-connectivity.html\"><strong>Facebook\u2019s solar-powered plane that beams down Internet connectivity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will begin to show ads to people who use ad blocking software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,34139,33502,161],"class_list":["post-175377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ad-blocking","tag-ad-blockers","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175387,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175377\/revisions\/175387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}