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Comment by danpalmer | Hacker News Reader

This is missing the ads from the company I work for. We do a lot of Facebook advertising. Is it US only?

Edit: The link is to political only ads, although this filtering is not exposed in the UI, and when searching for the company I work for I find similarly named companies that are definitely not political. When editing the URL back to "https://www.facebook.com/ads/library", and searching, it works, although the site then resets to political ads... but with more results showing.

It seems there are a lot of bugs with this.

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> political only ads

Already a designation that is not cognizable in the first place.

I find it interesting that this tool exists for the Facebook platform and not Instagram. Instagram has a meaningful amount of FB’s ad spend.

I found ads on the website that I saw on Instagram, I believe both Instagram and FB ads are on the website.

an other possibility is that it was an ad submitted on both platforms, and only the one on FB showed up on that website.

You have to change the country in the top right.

This did not work. It appears to return the same results as when set to the US. It is saving the country preference though.

I managed to get it to work after manually editing the URLs, although clicking the wrong thing or refreshing the page would reset this.

Do you know why Canada is not present ?

It's there, but further down. The list goes Austria to United States, then Afghanistan to Zimbabwe... for some reason. Canada is in the second block. Again, for some reason.

The beauty of UX. Or lack of it.

Things like this always remind me of this awesome talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4

The example starting at 9:45 especially relates.

FYI, there is a neat trick for deep linking directly to timestamps on youtube, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4&t=9m45s

or right click on the video and "Copy video URL at current time"

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