Facebook, Washington State Sue Firm Over Clickjacking 71
Trailrunner7 writes "Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorously. According to the office of Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, the company paid and encouraged scammers to design Facebook pages to bait users into visiting Websites that pay the company. The bait pages would appear in posts that seem to originate from a person's Facebook friends and offer visitors an opportunity to view 'provocative' content in exchange for clicking the 'like' button on the Facebook page."
Re:Incentivized likes (Score:5, Interesting)
It's (usually) hated amongst the smart people. There are more stupid people than smart people.
Re:Incentivized likes (Score:3, Interesting)
I got into an online argument with a cheerleader instructor about how cheerleading was not a thinking person's sport, and she responded that my point was nullified because she was a cheerleader and has two master's degrees.
Facebook is just like cheerleading in that otherwise intelligent women will proudly and gratuitously display their underarms and crotches to legions of horny boys and pervert papas.
Re:Who Watches the Coastguard? (Score:5, Interesting)
The really shitty thing about Facebook is that it doesn't just affect the people who somehow got suckered into using it. It also affects everybody that uses the internet to do anything at all. Stupid [F] and Like buttons cluttering up every g'dang page out there with their third-party javascript includes and whatnot, slowing everything down.
Which brings me to my secondary, related, rant - why is it that it's always the advertising taking too damn long to load that slows down pages while browsing? Shouldn't those bits be the fastest-loading parts of the page, since the advertising companies make their money by spitting out images and things to be viewed? If all I see is a box and an hourglass, I'm not going to know what stupid product I'm supposed to start buying....
Oh, yeah, and the privacy thing, too. In fifteen years, we're not going to have D's and R's in congress any more, but not because things will have improved. Instead, we're going to have the whomever the hell Mark Zuckerberg feels like keeping drunk party pictures under wraps for party...
Re:Who Watches the Coastguard? (Score:5, Interesting)
Personally, I prefer to confront reality head-on. Hiding the bullshit just inoculates you to what's really happening.
Where's the incentive to support sites that don't engage in shitty practices, if you can make the shitty sites seem better by hiding what they actually do?