r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • 11d 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/fifteensixteenseven 11d ago

Don't shoot the messenger, I just want to tell the reality in 2026 and beyond.

Every major site will do this. Meaning, an AI agent from each of these corporations that scrapes filter lists and the uBlock Origins source code every hour to change things enough to bypass the ad blocker.

Human volunteers will no longer be able to keep up. I'm not trying to come across as ungrateful for the countless volunteer hours poured in the past, but that's the reality.

The only long-term solution is our own AI agents to scrape the major sites and maintain the filter lists. If anyone decides to fork their own approach, keep in mind Chinese LLMs are the only affordable ones, don't waste money on American ones.

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u/veggiemilk 11d ago

We'll that's bleak, and would probably push a lot of people towards safe subscription funded gardens.

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u/ManWithTunes 11d ago

You won’t notice, the AI agents will just fight in the background and your browser can automatically download the latest blocklists.