Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

Posted by AshleysBrain 11 hours ago

Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month(mastodon.gamedev.place)

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devilfileprong 9 hours ago|

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EtienneDeLyon 8 hours ago||

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git-nebulous 10 hours ago||

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jheriko 10 hours ago||

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superkuh 11 hours ago||

On Google's Youtube to post links (like in video descriptions, etc) you have to pay by adding sellable/monetarily valuable personally identifying information to your account like a phone number and ID. Otherwise even with a google account from 2006 in good standing you can't post links anymore. Attempts to edit old video descriptions with HTTP/S links (from before the policy) also don't work.

xp84 7 hours ago||

I don’t know whether to be glad about this because of how horrifying YouTube’s spam problem is, or annoyed because it isn’t helping since their comments are what’s full of rampant fraud spam of every kind.

Honestly, the best thing YouTube could do to help protect users would be to shift to moderated comments only. If the video creator or their designated moderator doesn’t choose to explicitly show a comment, it should go in a black hole. Or even better, offer a service for a small fee relative to your channel’s revenue, which uses a Gemini flash model to approve on-topic comments. Creators can choose to invest either their time or their money, or just have no comments.

idiotsecant 11 hours ago||

I'm not sure a phone number is particularly valuable. It is a decent way pretty much ensure that you aren't a bot, though.

dtdynasty 10 hours ago||

Seems like an anti spam measure. Bad actors ruin all features where links can be placed in front of eyes.

tuveson 10 hours ago|

I think this is far too charitable an interpretation. They could just ban spammers. Facebook doesn’t want links going off of their platform because they get paid for people staying on their platform and looking at ads.

dtdynasty 4 hours ago|||

I've worked on anti abuse systems and people always say just ban spammers. Just is doing a lot of heavy lifting. People feel the low percentage of spam that gets through is already too much. And when the classification messed up on the low percentage of real users that's also a terrible experience.

The precision and recall tradeoffs are difficult and all scenarios lead to people being unhappy. Not to mention the politics of big corporations where anti abuse systems usually stand in opposition to company goals which makes getting any change through difficult.

chrismarlow9 10 hours ago|||

Easier to harvest content for AI. Scraping the open internet is going to get more challenging.