Last week I posted about a new application that exploited Facebook’s available space where they typically place a banner ad. As of today, the thin ice that Flyer Exchange was skating on has cracked. Facebook has announced that they are going to start blocking these applications. According to Facebook:
We’re planning on fixing a bug that some app developers are taking advantage of to display information in the Facebook chrome, outside the application canvas page.
This fix will be a breaking change for developers using absolute or fix positioned elements (to be specific, we will be adding a “position: relative” to the canvas page container) so we’re delaying the general fix in order to ensure everyone has time to update their applications. We’ll post more details when we close on a timeline.
The bottom line is that any Facebook application using absolute positioning CSS is not going to work perfectly anymore. If your application has absolute CSS then remove it! This exploit shows one of the downfalls of the platform. There is no guarantee that everything you can do on a website is going to work within Facebook without some sort of minor hacking.
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meh, Flyer Exchange is probably still the best paying ad network out there. Cubics is so unreliable and pays crap nowadays. Adsense too… so I'm sticking with Flyer Ex, they have other sizes.
Comment by foxtwo — October 5, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
meh, Flyer Exchange is probably still the best paying ad network out there. Cubics is so unreliable and pays crap nowadays. Adsense too… so I’m sticking with Flyer Ex, they have other sizes.
Comment by foxtwo — October 5, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
Facebook’s Watergate- Flyer Exchange Breaks Into Cubics Code…If Facebook developers are looking for Deep Throat, they’ve got him. His name is Adam Stamper and he came forward with some fascinating information:You might want to look closely at the ads delivered by ‘Flyers Exchange’. When I chec…
Comment by Lonely CEO Media - F — October 7, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
The GIG is UP
turns out Flyer Exchange was a scam on Cubics
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2205007948&...
Comment by Michael Lissack — October 7, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
the developers of flyer exchange have done something unthinkable, they have been hiding multiple ads for cubics for every one of their ads, effectively ddos-ing them to death. This has caused cubics much downtime and slowness over the past few days, which results in poorer payouts for legitimate publishers. All of this happened while the FE devs continued to bash and badmouth their competitor in poor taste.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2205007948&...
Comment by foxthree — October 7, 2007 @ 7:58 pm
Facebook’s Watergate- Flyer Exchange Breaks Into Cubics Code…
If Facebook developers are looking for Deep Throat, they’ve got him. His name is Adam Stamper and he came forward with some fascinating information:
You might want to look closely at the ads delivered by ‘Flyers Exchange’. When I chec…
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