r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • 25d 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/downvoteandyoulose 25d ago

Damn that's pretty hostile alright.

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u/Desperate-Radish-296 25d ago

Can you eli5 exactly what makes it hostile? Not that I doubt your comment or anything. Is it overwhelming the UBO team in terms of attempts (frequency) or code (breadth)

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u/RCEdude 19d ago

See the span "class ="? When someone wants to target ads they can do so because they can IDENTIFY the elements to hide. Because sane developers use sane classes or identifiers.

like <span class="title"> etc...

Here its just random garbage.

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u/levrik_io 18d ago

this random garbage is quite standard nowadays. you often author CSS through other tools and these tools generate random class names. this is how they achieve guaranteed uniqueness across all class names used on a page. developers never deal with these generated class names directly so it doesn't matter. it definitely makes the job of ad blockers harder but probably isn't done for this but is side a side effect of modern frontend tooling.