> It probably would have been more helpful if you took the time to quote the particular part of my comment which you believe to be untrue.

He did.

> If youre referring to whether or not Meta "cares" of you click and ad or not, then fair play. I'd argue that's more or less semantics, but ok, they do care and there is indeed an entire industry built on them caring.

This also depends on whether ads are being sold as "pay-per-click" or "pay-per-view" (although in the biz they say "impression" rather than "view"). For the latter, websites like Meta who sell ad space only get paid when people actually click on them.

An AI wrote this comment.

>whether you click or not doesn't change the fact that there is still ad sales happening in the background

if nobody clicks on the ads nobody's going to buy ad space because people who place ads care about whether their ads translate into sales. So of course Facebook cares, and ultimately only cares about how many people respond to them because how much money they'll make depend on how much money the ads make.

That's why FB has invested ungodly sums into trying to figure out the preferences of their users.