How to Control Facebook Ads (sort of) - Comments Page 2

@ Bob K
Coincidence? NO Your private medical information has been sold by someone in the testing chain, and FB has purchased it. Zuckerberg has admitted he set face book up as an information mining program. The only way to defeat it, is to uninstall face book.

@ Jim
An ad blocker will stop the ads, but it won't stop face book gleaning your private, saleable, information.

Yipes! I wrote a long comment and it was deleted because I forgot to put in my name. So here's a short version. I use FB mainly to keep up with far-flung relatives and former colleagues, as I am retired and need social interaction! The ads don't bother me. They are usually for funny t-shirts or for the USO, it seems. I read that people get their "news" from FB. How? I don't see any news on FB.

I've been using Facebook for a number of years. The ads haven't really bother me that much. HOWEVER, During the past few weeks the number of ads has increased dramatically! I have an ad after every other post or so. I'm not a glutton for punishment so won't even try to go to their settings. It's useless. I like Facebook for the 4 or five groups I'm in and that's about it.

I like the idea of Ad Blocker plus. I installed ad blocker some time ago and Bob's newsletter includes a lot of white space. White space is better than ads, especially ads that indicate your private information has been compromised.
As some posters have realized, a good solution is to do without Facebook entirely. What does it offer that is worth compromising what needs to be compromised? There are other hosters of groups than FB. I'm in several. Groups.io. Was Yahoo.
I never saw the point of Facebook and I smelled a rat when I became aware of its requirements. I've never had an account. Never will. I pity the people who can't do without it to feel complete.
If you really feel it's worth something there's nothing to stop you from opening an account with a fake name, fake DOB, fake everything, never "like" anything, friend anyone, never click on anything in FB and don't forget to log out when you finish your FB session. And use an email address only for FB. That way you can easily tell when they've sold your info.