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LJ Plus accounts and ads
Mar. 20th, 2008 05:42 pmIf you have anyone on your f-list who has a Plus account, then this applies to you.
When Plus accounts (the ones with the ads) read their f-list, the information in the posts-- even f-locked posts, even those written by paid users-- is shared with the advertisers in order to target ads. (ETA: Italics added, I can't figure out where I got that part and it may well not be true.)
The advertisers can also use the information from LJ profiles to figure out demographically how to target their ads best.
Here is an article about fixing some of that.
However, the only thing you can really do is decide whether or not you want people with Plus accounts on your f-list. You can begin figuring out who has which kind by going to Paid Accounts, which lists the people on your f-list who have "basic or Plus" accounts, separated from the paid accounts. Then you'd have to narrow it down on the user info page for each one.
And yes, this is "totally unfair" to Plus account holders, but if we can have a foofooraw about people saving other people's f-locked posts (remember Frienditto?) elsewhere on the interwebs (which is, morally, no different from printing them out and keeping them in some other semi-public place) then we can certainly have one about this.
When Plus accounts (the ones with the ads) read their f-list, the information in the posts-- even f-locked posts, even those written by paid users-- is shared with the advertisers in order to target ads. (ETA: Italics added, I can't figure out where I got that part and it may well not be true.)
The advertisers can also use the information from LJ profiles to figure out demographically how to target their ads best.
Here is an article about fixing some of that.
However, the only thing you can really do is decide whether or not you want people with Plus accounts on your f-list. You can begin figuring out who has which kind by going to Paid Accounts, which lists the people on your f-list who have "basic or Plus" accounts, separated from the paid accounts. Then you'd have to narrow it down on the user info page for each one.
And yes, this is "totally unfair" to Plus account holders, but if we can have a foofooraw about people saving other people's f-locked posts (remember Frienditto?) elsewhere on the interwebs (which is, morally, no different from printing them out and keeping them in some other semi-public place) then we can certainly have one about this.
