And perhaps because of the limited advertising real estate at Facebook, limits ads to sponsored profiles, banners on the side of the page and above a user's profile.
Yet on its most important pages, the results from its Web search engine, it limits ads to nothing more garish than a dozen words of text.
There is something heroic in a movie director who grasps his vision of the world and takes it, scorning compromise, to its irrevocable limit — ad infinitum, you might say, or, if you have other ideas, ad absurdum.
After attracting a flurry of ads under the leadership of Stephen Case, who founded AOL in 1985, the company in 2001 decided to improve subscribers' experience by limiting ad intrusion.
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He said there isn't much users can do, but limiting ad tracking in your iPhone's privacy settings can make it more difficult for location trackers to identify users.
The company says that last year it began to limit ad serving on smartphone devices if they pointed to landing pages with Flash-heavy content, in order to improve the experience for users.
Comscore says: "And this apparently reduces the likelihood that an advertiser has bid to have his/her ad included in the results page from these longer queries, due to paid search advertising strategies that limit ad coverage, such as Exact Match, Negative Match, and bid management software campaign optimization".
But trickier still for Facebook will be figuring out the advertising question on mobile devices, where small screens currently limit ad space and revenue.
