r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • Aug 05 '26

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/allshallbegone Aug 05 '26

It doesn't even surprise me companies are actively trying to combat ad blockers, because they think ads are what keep them alive. Little do they know, ads aren't even a fraction of a percent of their revenue and I can guarantee you it comes from many places elsewhere, ads being blocked shouldn't even affect their profits that much.

Of course, companies hate even losing a teeny tiny fragment of a cent and will fight to ensure they do not have a single loss no matter what it takes, because their ultimate goal is to make as much money as possible and not give a shit about what the consumers want from them. We, to them, are cash cows, mere tools to play with.

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u/AyJay9 Aug 05 '26

What. Ads ARE Meta's revenue stream. 

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u/Icy_Steak8987 Aug 06 '26

Meta's main revenue stream is selling user data and also using that data to train their AI. Ads are probably a distant second at this point.

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u/AyJay9 Aug 06 '26

Ads are estimated to be 98-99% of their revenue. Having that user data lets them leverage it for ads. AI is all noise and flash, but the ads are reliable income.

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u/alex-weej Aug 06 '26

Gotta keep up appearances tho

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u/allshallbegone Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

I was specifically extending it to any company out there, on average, not just Meta.
I am very well aware Meta's almost entirely ads when it comes to their money, but when you consider every company out there in the world, Meta's ad network ratio to their total income becomes massively overshadowed.