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[alexalex]

Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social networking service, will begin displaying advertisements on its smartphone and tablet applications as soon as early March, theFinancial Times reported late Sunday.
Seeking higher revenues in advance of the blockbuster US$5-billion initial public offering the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has set for this spring, Facebook plans to introduce what it calls “sponsored stories” into mobile news feeds within weeks, several people familiar with the matter told the FT. Advertising agencies have already submitted proposals for the new feature, the people said.
Making money from mobile was highlighted as a top priority for Facebook when the company filed documents for its highly anticipated and long expected IPO last week. Half of all 845 million Facebook users globally accessed their account through a mobile device last December, yet a lack of advertising means Facebook makes no money from those visits.....

http://business.fina...n-weeks-report/

[nyolc8]

Please no... (It's slow for me without ads)

[thealexweb]

nyolc8, on 06 February 2012 - 19:26, said:

Please no... (It's slow for me without ads)

Increasing amounts of their traffic is coming from mobile devices, how do you expect them to deliver a return to their shareholders if they don't show ads to all their users?

[Blackhearted]

I think they should consider making their android app actually work decently first before they think about putting ads into it.

[Got3n™]

Hooray for adblock on android ^_^

[Albert Bonici]

Lolol fb drones of compliance...

[ichi]

Blackhearted, on 06 February 2012 - 19:30, said:

I think they should consider making their android app actually work decently first before they think about putting ads into it.

Indeed, as if the Android Facebook app didn't suck enough already.

[remixedcat]

way to waste people's allready limited bandwidth!!! plans are having less and less quota on them and they wanna pull this crap... bleh. expect to se them fail. FB is allready on the way out with this timeline BS this just takes the cake.

ichi, on 06 February 2012 - 19:44, said:

Indeed, as if the Android Facebook app didn't suck enough already.

I hate it as well it is slooowww as hell... even on wifi it's slow.

[techbeck]

Hopefully the Adfree app will block these

[onionjuice]

Thanks for the heads up, I won't update facebook then. lol.

[Wombatt]

I was wondering why they had not done this yet. Concidering some people never visit the actual website.

[SHoTTa35]

Got3n™, on 06 February 2012 - 19:31, said:

Hooray for adblock on android ^_^

This wouldn't be an "ad" per say though. It's just a like a story on from X friend posting a status update. This is why people have been bitching about "sponsored stories" for the longest as they aren't an typical ad. Facebook will just inject them into the news feed but instead of being from Jane Doe, it's just from "Sponsored" - it's also not from some random website, it'll be from facebook's IP address itself, same as the page you are visiting.

[techbeck]

SHoTTa35, on 06 February 2012 - 20:59, said:

This wouldn't be an "ad" per say though. It's just a like a story on from X friend posting a status update. This is why people have been bitching about "sponsored stories" for the longest as they aren't an typical ad. Facebook will just inject them into the news feed but instead of being from Jane Doe, it's just from "Sponsored" - it's also not from some random website, it'll be from facebook's IP address itself, same as the page you are visiting.

Well, that blows. Hopefully someone will come out with a way to block these.

[SHoTTa35]

It's not really all that bad I guess, Gizmodo on the mobile page does it now too sometimes. Once in a while you'll see instead of "Facebook" or "Apple" in the blue header/tag area you'll just see "Sponsored" and you kinda just skip over it. On the normal page it's shows it's "sponsored" imagine on a hover of the mouse.

[chrispinto]

Hm.. Where will it all fit? Or do they mean for the mobile browser site rather than the app?