A Citi Banner Ad On Starbucks’ Facebook Timeline Page? Adware Strikes Again
A large banner ad for Citi appearing prominently under the cover photo on the timeline page for Starbucks: Is Facebook testing yet another advertising unit? No: It’s probably just adware.
A large banner ad for Citi appearing prominently under the cover photo on the timeline page for Starbucks: Is Facebook testing yet another advertising unit? No: It’s probably just adware.
The screen shot below from Ticular Principal Ulrike Ruppelt shared many of the same characteristics as the one Mashable Features Writer Christine Erickson encountered last month, particularly the small print under the banner ad that reads, “ads not by facebook.”
As we reported last month, the section on adware in the Facebook help center contains step-by-step instructions for how to cleanse adware from Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer, and emphasizes that banner ads such as these are not the social network’s doing:
Facebook ads will never appear as banners in the center, top, or left column of Facebook Web pages.
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