So I just received an email from Facebook, promising to "improve" my experience of advertising on Facebook. Allegedly, up to now, the ads I get are triggered by something I've done or said on Facebook; I can't see how that can be remotely true in most cases. Now they happily announce that they will "provide" ads related to just about anything I do anywhere on the internet. But they do provide a link for opting out of the "improvement". When I tried to do so, I got a notice that my computer isn't accepting cookies, and that I need to enable cookies to do the opt out. I don't think I've ever even gone into the settings for cookies on this computer; I've reset my mudville cookie a number of times with no problem, and I think I must have cookies for at least several sites like our online prescription provider. I think the email is really from Facebook, but I'm not even certain of that. I click Facebook only to check stuff from a number of distant young relatives; is there any better alternative than trying to ignore the piles of absolute crap that I have to wade through to do that? What would an intelligent person who actually knows what's going on do at this point?