I was expecting this after stories this last week
But this little dirty trick I was not expecting.
The advertising is here and it ain’t pretty.
No it is not on the sidebar, no it is not flashing scripts and no it is not a pop-up. It is cleverly disguised in your News Feed!
this stinks and falls into the same category as Google’s deceptive “Sponsored Links” in searches.
The advertising that appears on Facebook looks no different to any other News Feed item other than it has a very discrete “sponsored” tag after the ad. The word is a different colour and blends in very well to white.
This is yet another bullshit attempt into tricking users to click links to generate click-through’s!
I have not edited this image other than to add the red box and arrow
Unfortunately though Facebook will get their money because of the disguised ads in this context. There are enough Facebook users out there that won’t know any better. But I do and I am not clicking on any of them.
clipped from: globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com 