Part of the purpose of the 'like' button is obviously help form a more complete profile of a given user in order to more effectively customize advertising - would incorporating a 'dislike' button make this task any easier? That is, would an approach that refines advertising content by filtering out subject matter a user actively dislikes have a substantive advantage over an approach that just focuses on homing in on what the user actively likes? My guess is that it doesn't, otherwise it would have been implemented already.
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Part of the purpose of the 'like' button is obviously help form a more complete profile of a given user in order to more effectively customize advertising - would incorporating a 'dislike' button make this task any easier? That is, would an approach that refines advertising content by filtering out subject matter a user actively dislikes have a substantive advantage over an approach that just focuses on homing in on what the user actively likes? My guess is that it doesn't, otherwise it would have been implemented already.
Not necessarily true -- you can report/dislike ads anytime/anywhere on Facebook and Twitter (maybe Google+? I don't use it really)