Banner Ad Across Facebook Profile? It’s Adware
Facebook has been tweaking and testing its ad offerings quite a bit over the past several weeks, but if any users are seeing large banner ads across the top of their profile pages, those are the result of adware, and not the doing of the social network.
Facebook has been tweaking and testing its ad offerings quite a bit over the past several weeks, but if any users are seeing large banner ads across the top of their profile pages, those are the result of adware, and not the doing of the social network.
Mashable Features Writer Christine Erickson encountered the pictured ad (screen shot courtesy of Mashable) Tuesday, and colleague and Entertainment Editor Christina Warren squashed any theories about massive ads appearing on Facebook by mentioning the following sentence from the adware section of the Facebook help center:
Facebook ads will never appear as banners in the center, top, or left column of Facebook Web pages.
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