[davedx]

Personally I use Facebook with AdBlock and Privacy Badger enabled. They don't make very much money from me. ;)

[bigbugbag]

Yes they do, even better you probably gave them from your own pocket. You don't understand advertising do you ? It goes like this:

company has a product to sell, pays money for ads (may pay money to adblock to circumvent filters), factor the cost in the product price.

You buy the product, you pay for the advertising.

[ionised]

How does that work if he never sees the ads on Facebook?

I can't personally remember the last time I saw one on there.

Then again, I barely login these days, but when I do it's NoScript'd, uBlock'd, DNT'd, Self-Destructing Cookie'd, Protect Local Storage'd and Better Privacy'd out of the arse.

[bigbugbag]

Doesn't change that fact that the company factors the cost of advertising in their product price that the consumer pays regardless of the ads being seen or not.

Only way not to pay for ads is to buy product sold by a company that does not advertise. Good luck with that.

[briandear]

That's cool, but having you on the service increases the network effect, thus you really are helping them make more money.