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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • That does the exact opposite of what you just explained.

    Ads are paid based on a complex metric that generally boils down to number of times ad is displayed, divided by number of times ad is clicked.

    Of course if the click-through rate is very high, that will be suspicious and the ad network might disable the showing site - that presuming the showing site is a third party. Since Meta is a first party, they won’t do that for obvious reasons. You don’t shut down profitable branches of your own business, do you.

    No, the best trick is to just use regular adblock, and for apps, to use patched versions that exclude ads from feeds, etc., essentially hitting Meta where it hurts, the revenue generated from the services. When traffic stays the same, or even increases, but revenue drops, now THAT triggers a nice big emergency meeting.