Between all the political crap (and most of it is pure crap) and all those ads, I had been considering cancelling my Facebook account.
These so-called posts (ads) appeared between every three or four posts from friends. This was what was there on just one day:
Quicken Loans wants to let me know I can pay off my house at a furious pace using a Government program.
Dyson wants to sell me a cord free machine.
Spectrum - Speeds starting at 60 Mbbs.
Instacar- -t Shop my favorite grocery store and they will deliver to my door.
LendingTree - -Reverse mortgage.
Hexa - Incontinance products.
Bank Account Reviews- -Find the best online banks
American Red Cross - They want me to leave them my money. (not a chance!)
Geico wants to sell me insurance.
WiFi Booster wants to sell me a booster. They also flashed a huge 'sign up for email' ad in my face.
Stearns and Foster wants to sell me a mattress.
Xarelto may owe me money
Opendoor wants to buy my house. (I don't own one)
Stansberry Research wants to warn me I am going to lose my money ( I am sure I will lose some if I go to their site and sign up for whatever they are selling)
Home Gather wants to sell me a home cheap.
Wall Street journal wants to sell me a subscription.
Peak Chiropractic and Rehab thinks I have pain.
All of these so-called posts have one thing in common, at the top or close to the tops, this:
or this:
Ad Block does not stop these ads!
I tried blocking them.
That stopped one and I think three more took its place!
I recently installed an app called F.B. Purity so I could make Facebook always show the most recent posts. (No matter how many times I changed this setting, Facebook always wants me to see the ‘Top stories’ when I log in. I don’t know how they determine what is a top story, but that’s another issue.)
Then something great happened. I wasn’t seeing those ‘Sponsored’ posts anymore.
I checked F.B. Purity and found this!
F.B. Purity is great, I love it! Facebook is a bit more fun these days.
Now on to fix other issues with Facebook, like why when I click a link to another page in Facebook I can’t go back to where I was before I clicked that link!
