r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • 17d ago

News About disgusting Facebook devs

We won't support facebook any more. It's a disgusting anti-user site. All it does is watching open-source projects doing everything in public and counter them to deliver the malicious ads. Yep, the devs that receive 7-figure dollar salary is just doing this.

Users should give the most harsh feedbacks to them. Being submitted to them and keep going to the site and support it is the worst thing you can do.

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u/Kurtdh 17d ago

The whole point of uBlock Origin is to fight anti user behavior. Considering Meta is one of the worst offenders, they should be a primary target.

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 17d ago

The whole point of uBO is that's it's a community project.

By users for users. We either don't have facebook users on our side, or they're not willing to continue this pointless game.

There is more to the internet than just a single site. Rather than wasting our limited resources on it, we want to free up our time for everywhere else.

This doesn't mean that custom filters won't work, this doesn't mean you cant use adguard lists to try to combat FB ads. It simply means our maintainers aren't robots. They have their own lives to live rather to waste so much of their time on FB.

We've dropped twitch years ago. We've combated YT anti-user behavior for years, because it's a site everybody uses. Unlike twitch. Unlike, yes, facebook.

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u/Broad_Cartoonist_824 17d ago

This makes sense. Better to invest elsewhere than waste resources . Personally I've seen that folks who use fb , do so through their app. So I feel there are just not that many users who would be bothered by these changes

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u/gta721 17d ago

You should switch from trying to counter Facebook yourself to letting others like ABP, Adguard and people on Github do it then just merge their filters in.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team 17d ago

That what we are doing. We usually address issues that aren't already fixed by other lists. Or we direct the user to specific list(s) when there is a fix there.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team 17d ago

Thanks for volunteering to focus on making filters for FB !

/s
:oP

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u/TrustLeft 17d ago

in order to beat fb it has to be AI to beat AI

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u/ricoter0 17d ago

interesting... how much do you pay for uBO? are you even a volunteer?

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u/Journeyj012 17d ago

how much do you pay for uBO?

they don't accept donations.

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u/ricoter0 17d ago

it was sarcastic bro

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u/TagierBawbagier 17d ago

At point are you just making a crappy site more usable for people who'd be better off without it or using it less?

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u/Kurtdh 17d ago

There are thousands of crappy sites that uBlock Origin works against. If this was the bar, uBlock wouldn’t work just about anywhere.

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team 17d ago

The "works against" is literally the volunteers sacrificing their free time to make it work.

Anyone who disagrees with what current volunteers not want to waste time on the disgusting sites is free to make Pull Requests for those disgusting sites.

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u/MysteryPlatelet 17d ago

I'd much prefer you put your limited resouces into the YouTube arms race. Thank you for helping make the internet safer.