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The quality of Facebook ads is so shady that I fear this will bring nothing good for the users.

Speaking of wish the most common ads I get in Facebook are those where they trick people into agreeing to get expensive and recurrent SMS messages; like a parasite of your wallet. That should be illegal.

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They're against Facebook's advertising policy, if you hover over the ads you'll get a little cross in the corner which you can click to report them.

I think Facebook ads on external sites have potential to be the most well targeted ads on the internet.

Currently, Google ads know about current intent (your search or the topic of the site you're browsing) but not much about you. Facebook knows a lot about you, but nothing about intent except that you're currently wasting some time on Facebook.

Soon Facebook will have both signals.

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