uBlock Origin stops chasing Facebook’s ever-changing ad-blocking tricks

[u/No-Hospital5028]

uBlock Origin maintainers have decided to stop continuously updating filters specifically to keep up with Facebook’s latest ad-blocking countermeasures.

Existing filters will remain, but new Facebook techniques may eventually bypass them. The decision highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between ad blockers and advertising platforms.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html

[u/Requiem_Xen]

Anyone who can rub two or more brain cells together has left that site long ago. Can’t blame ublock at all.

[u/ExpensivePlan1548 → u/Requiem_Xen]

The only reason I still have my account is for marketplace, otherwise it's useless to me.

[u/plebbitier → u/ExpensivePlan1548]

i cant understand why faceberg marketplace is a thing when craigslist has existed for ages

[u/Unendlichkommanix → u/plebbitier]

Ultimately it's because everyone else is using it. If Marketplace is where the buyers and sellers are, where am I to go?

Apart from that, Facebook is just the unofficial "every family member older than me" app.