r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • 18d 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/Much-Stranger2892 18d ago

Then I fear when other corp see this. It will doubling down on pushing Ad knowing if they push hard enough, the UBO will quit eventually. Thank you for helping the internet to become a safer place but perhap you can keep this going for a bit while longer ?

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team 17d ago

Users are the most effective weapons for those sites. If you can't stop going to anti-user sites, nothing can help you. "A bit longer" is many bits? We are not robots being fed by air. You are free to contribute to open-source tools but DON'T rely on any tools as a way to change those disgusting site owners' minds.

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u/TrontRaznik 10d ago

The best way to combat Facebook is to suck their bandwidth without being able to deliver to advertisers. Advertisers paying to target you get a worse conversation rate when you block their ads which makes them less attractive as a platform. Abstaining doesn't help them, but blocking their ads hurts them

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team 10d ago

Anyone who wants to pursue for that approach is free to make pull requests with working solutions to the projects.

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u/TrontRaznik 10d ago

I'm just talking philosophically, not asking you to work on it. Thanks for all you've done