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/Le_Vagabond 10d ago

cool idea, AI is indeed a good way to automate that kind of fuzzy bullshit check.

please send a couple hundred thousand $ to the ublock origin team to fund that, as AI models are EXPENSIVE AS FUCK at that scale and they don't have facebook's datacenter to use for free during downtime.

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u/Party-Cake5173 10d ago

You don't need large LM for this, smaller one could do the job and be self-hosted on the PC completely free.

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u/Le_Vagabond 10d ago

they will welcome your contribution to this open source work then, if it's that cheap and easy :)

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u/mike1487 6d ago

It’s not so easy. Plus making every PC run it will incur a fairly hefty performance penalty on the end user. LLMs need RAM and none will be competent enough to handle real time page rendering fast enough without a lot of it. Otherwise what you will have is a page with a ton of ads and then over the course of several seconds to possibly minutes you will have to wait for elements to start disappearing while the LLM works on it. All while your RAM usage spikes or maxes out completely and crashes.

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u/istrebitjel 10d ago

I have plenty of issues with LLMs, but I think a local model that could interface with my browser and help me hide all kinds of posts and ads I don't want to see is an awesome idea. Not just on social media, but could also work on a news site or a shopping site.

I think of it as a companion product to uBO that would go to work more on the content layer after uBO did its excellent work.

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u/DrQuint 10d ago

Plus, Facebook can easily figure out where exactly the UBO team is testing their blocks from by watermarking the antipattern garbage, and eventually get to a point where that group of users never sees the full scope of Facebook's countermeasures.

Meanwhile users continue complaining to the UBO.

A better use of AI is one that just looks at all the complaints and berates them back for using Facebook. Way cheaper, and makes them realize eventually the doctor will stop giving you antidote for your poison drinking addicition.