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I could be wrong, but these sound a little like Facebook ads. There's a feature for businesses to advertise directly to "people who like your page, and their friends", and a lot of the time (if they're promoting their entire page and not just a post) it looks like what you're describing.

There should be three dots on the upper right side of these posts that will let you block, give feedback, etc on posts like this. It won't block them all, but it will prevent you from seeing that one in the future. I've heard adblockers also help limit this sort of thing (if it's an ad) but I haven't seen any evidence of it. Doesn't hurt to have one anyway.

(This article)[https://lifehacker.com/5987248/how-facebook-is-using-you-to-annoy-your-friends-and-how-to-stop-it] contains some pretty useful information on the subject, albeit a bit dated.

Great little program called fb purity http://www.fbpurity.com/

It has an option to sort your feed by newest updates. And if you're like me and hate all the random bs your friends and family post and just want OC add "Shared" "Liked" and "Via" into the text filter to get rid of 99% of the garbage.

Sadly haven't found any mobile options for my feed, but this is something at least.

never had any problems with FB in Chrome, are you using www.messenger.com or www.facebook.com ?

also check your extensions and try turning everything off, use chrome://extensions for that

what is the specific problem? can you give a screen shot?

I created a page, completed all fields, wanted to activate the ad. And what happens...

"The specified ad requires a different destination: App URL is only supported for the target app installment. Please either remove the app URL or change the target to app installment."

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...because I added as website url the Google Play URL. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydomain.myapp

This is so stupid! Because their target "app installment" is not working, because their input field of this campaign does not find the app, not even with the link from above, since the app is only found via direct link in Browser. But not even this works in the input field of this setup page. So you can neither use "app installment" for ads, nor "link click", when you want users to find your app in Google Play. You cannot even add a link to your website which redirects to Google Play. They check this while activating the ads setup.

I really wonder how they can earn all these millions of dollars. I've never seen a company like that which earns their money with ads, but on the other hand, it prevents you from advertising, either because of technical issues or funtional ones.

The only setup that works is: Facebook ad -> redirects user to my website. -> On this website the user should use the Google Play Button to go to Google Play -> From here he should install the app.

I doubt that this way a user will ever install the app.