Facebook hates me. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 03:47:45 pm
content: Has this happened to anyone else.I'm scrolling through Facebook. See an advertisement clip which looks interesting. Click on it. Cycle through the left and right arrows illustrating the products available. Then wham, Facebook suspends my account to not following community guidelines.WFT. I have to re-upload my face photo and wait for their ruling.This has happened 3 times over the past 3 months. All from scrolling somebodies else's posted images. I think in all 3 cases, they were advert posts from a commercial entity.Hey FB, if you do not want me viewing any adds since it triggers your sensor guidelines, then do not feed them to me...

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 04:22:43 pm
content: I would have thought being booted off Farcebook is apositivedevelopment.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 04:41:05 pm
content: Their pseudo AI thinks you're a click bot?

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 05:09:18 pm
content: Quote from: madires on April 13, 2025, 04:41:05 pmMost likely. I'm usually cleared and allowed back on within about 10-30 minutes.

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 05:09:39 pm
content: I had a facebook account at one time but closed it 10-15 years ago. Same reason I don't have any other social media accounts, it was a political shit show and I didn't see the point. EEVBLOG is even too political for my tastes.Should I buy Dave's blue meter or Brymen's red?

author: Infraviolet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2025, 07:25:28 pm
content: A platform that treats people like that doesn't deserve our custom. The same is true of all social media, they try to make themselves the only place where discussion takes place, but forum-type threads and debates aren't what they want, they simply want the perfect user which spends all their time on there whilst acting in such a manner as to generate the maximum volume of data to sell to advertisers. Even with Musk's slight improvement of twitter, less censorship, since he took it over, it too is almost as bad as facebook in terms of demanding accounts have thinks like phone verification upon setup. Social media companies are more interested in ensuring personhood of accounts so they can assure data brokers that what they are gathering is real, than they are in providing a useful platform. Look at the recent trend, perhaps started by the main worsening of twitter under Musk, to make social media login-only for browsing as well as posting. Who would want to post things that are supposed to be public, therefore supposed to reach a wide audience, on a platform which only logged in viewers can browse properly? I'm not even against people having furious political debates, but given social media's love of censorship it would like like traditional forums (I'm glad eevblog stays apolitical but there are surely equivalent forum-type websites dedicated to controversial topics) are the better place for that anyway.

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 01:02:28 am
content: Been watching Sarah Wynn-Williams testifying before the senate.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 07:37:22 pm
content: Quote from: joeqsmith on April 15, 2025, 01:02:28 amX2. Everybody should be watching!

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 10:35:23 pm
content: Donating 1mil and such, doubt we will protect her.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 10:56:27 pm
content: I'm not concerned with protecting her. Since she's testifying in front of the US Congress she'll get plenty of legal protection. But people worldwide need to be aware of what's going on with Facebook and the other Big Tech companies and/or their very active cooperation with the government of China. I'm not China bashing but there are a lot of different issues at play here.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 11:42:10 pm
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on April 15, 2025, 10:56:27 pm1. How, exactly, are they cooperating with the gov't. of China?2. if they are, so what?(And in case @TimFox comes poking around here: coöperation.)

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 11:49:49 pm
content: I see you have a few issues which I can relate...Quote from: BrianHG on April 13, 2025, 03:47:45 pmNope, that's never happened to me.QuoteAgain, no...QuoteOK, now we're getting to the root of issue. What are you thinking here?

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2025, 11:53:35 pm
content: Quote from: metrologist on April 15, 2025, 11:49:49 pmYou are right, stupid me....

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2025, 01:41:23 am
content: You clicked on an advertisement, that's not something a human does intentionally.Therefor you must be a bot.

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2025, 03:44:56 am
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on April 15, 2025, 10:56:27 pmTwo groups of sheeples. One is too old and ignorant to care, the other too young and naive. Hope I am wrong.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2025, 01:37:05 pm
content: Quote from: Psi on April 16, 2025, 01:41:23 amWell, their system probably determined that indeed. Not because he clicked, but probably because he cycled too fast. I already had that kind of annoyances even when just searching parts on sites like Mouser. Sometimes if you make more than a certain number of searches in a given amount of time, it will redirect you to a verification page with a captcha or something like that. It often changes, as they probably play with parameters on a regular basis to fight against bots.Nice world we live in!

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2025, 10:51:51 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on April 13, 2025, 03:47:45 pmI only use Facebook to keep in contact with a few people over events.I had set my homepage to their community one last year which has no adverts after being redirected a few times to some dodgy/fake news and scam websites where an advert appears as a post and one click and you can't even see the URL that is wrapped in the Facebook URL redirect before redirecting, so you don't know you are going to be redirected and that's when I loose trust at that point.I spend more time with Ublock trying to hide suggestions/predictive texting and other annoying things than the conversations just to keep it usable to me and if it wasn't for the headerhiderfixer extension on scroll.One redirect to a scam website last year reminded me of the MarketMaster scam (60op) about the 2020's but with Bitcoin with the theme and decorations they were using.