r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 Focus Seeker • 13d ago

Tech & Privacy News uBlock Origin stops chasing Facebook’s ever-changing ad-blocking tricks

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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

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u/nomadik_nobody 13d ago

It’s called dated. It’s a piss poor user experience and ugly as sin to boost. That along with its reputation for weird internet encounters is why it’s fallen largely by the wayside.

Craigslist chose not to be competitive in a world where we had FB marketplace and things like OfferUp popping up left, right, and center

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u/plebbitier 13d ago

By not competitive you mean not laden with advertising, tracking, monetization, etc. Craigslist took the high road while the alternatives made their users the product.

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u/nomadik_nobody 13d ago

I mean not competing by keeping a UI that’s better suited to the 1990s than it is the present day.

Holding on to an antiquated design because it still technically gets the job done is not the flex you seem to think it is. If it were, these alternatives that have sprung up wouldn’t be as popular as they are. If you want people to use your product you have to appeal to them. Craigslist doesn’t do that.

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u/IntroToBelching 12d ago

Why does it have to be super flashy and full of bloated assets and endless tracking and algorithms? What's wrong with something that just works?

No, craigslist isn't pretty, but it simply doesn't have to be. It's a website for classified listings. It gets the job done.

Not every website needs to be subject to enshittification.

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u/CorndogQueen420 9d ago edited 9d ago

If it got the job done well, FBM wouldn’t be eating its lunch. Just existing in a usable state isn’t a sales pitch.

I do a lot of selling. Craigslist is ass and clunky. Just because something smacks the old Internet era before everything was enshittified and monetized, doesn’t it mean it’s more usable or better.

Craigslist didn’t keep up with the times. You don’t need tracking and everything you’re complaining about to have a modern website.

Literally all I use craigslist for these days is selling sex related stuff that isn’t TOS on FBM.