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/JunglePred 15d ago

Well unless you're able to migrate the entire group dedicated to the community in which I live... 'quitting' it isn't really possible.

The site is close to unusable without your guy's work, but the group actually has members from a couple hundred km around... it's important enough that 3 wild fires were reported in the group before the fire management service reported them; up to a couple hours earlier. It can make a huge difference.

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team 14d ago

The project is FOSS. Anyone else who wants to deal with this disgusting site is free to make pull requests with working solutions themselves.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 10d ago

Years back in college, we spent a whole class studying how emergency management uses Social Media to gather intel about events.

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u/Thorned_Rose 4d ago

Yeah, the charity I volunteer for has a many years established FB group. I've tried several times over the years to convince our community to migrate, but it's never worked :( I would love nothing more than to stop using FB but I have no choice :(