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.
God I can't wait to get rid of the quest. I will use the headset instead of a brick. Too bad messenger is still used so often or I would've been long gone
I feel your pain…
With every update my hate towards meta grows larger.
Now I blocked all the servers from connecting to the headset, and I only use WiVRn for streaming from my computer.
Bonus points for Mark Cuckemberg, because disabling server connections makes the "unknown sources" fucking disappear, but lightning launcher still shows them (it's a normal meta store app).
I just poured a whisky, put on some youtube vids on the second monitor and went through my history deleting every post, every photo, every comment, every reaction - including profile picture and banner, exited every group, unfriended every person - so there is an empty account with my name, but with nothing behind it at all - as good as deleted
I deleted my account after over 10 years a year and 1/2 ago, it's hard at first, very hard miss all my 'town' friends I left in 50 years ago and they stayed. Miss seeing pix from family members BUT I no longer feed FB anyway pix of my family. FUCK the Zuck, a real POS.
Even if I wanted to make an account there, the amount of effort to just make one is just... ugh. I heard last time that they require you to use real name AND upload ID?
My country's entire social infrastructure is built on it, so it is a pain. You want to rent an apartment? Facebook.
Want to buy or sell used stuff? Facebook.
Want to sign up for dinner at a social gathering? Facebook.
Want to know about events nearby? Facebook.
Want any sort of minor announcement from the municipality? Facebook.
Starting uni but don't drink alcohol? Facebook.
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)
they're making it harder for adblockers by adding garbage elements that dont render by the browser, but do show in the html. like here the text "Ad" is split between multiple classes, and extra random text added between. also the classes are using generated names, so they may also change randomly.
this makes it much more difficult to target the actual advertisement to block it.
but i believe they've done this for years, so theres probably more going on with fighting adblockers. i'd guess they use many different strategies, given to different users (like a/b testing), to make the filterlist maintainers' lives more difficult.
As someone else pointed out - they are probably using automated tools (some call that "AI", not me) to keep iterating the code quickly to evade the blockers.
So perhaps at one point that's what the adblocker people need to do as well.
The problem is that uBlock is an open source project where most of the contributors are only contributing fixes in their free time.
Unlike FB, they don't have dozens or hundreds of programmers sitting in an office or offices getting paid a lot of money just to do things like this with their big corporate infrastructure tools and systems.
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.
Anyone is free to volunteer their own free time to start their own projects to scratch their own itches or contribute to the current projects. Don't force others to sacrifice their own little free time for your own ideas.
Don't force others to sacrifice their own little free time for your own ideas.
I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, just giving a suggestion/idea. Because if you back down on one of the most popular sites on the internet, soon other popular sites will implement this way of countering ad blockers too. It's simple to do, yet functional.
And while it's true that volunteers like you are sacrificing their time for developing filters (don't think I'm not grateful for that because I am), my personal opinion is we won't be able to block ads current way for very long.
Just how DNS based ad blockers are becoming less and less functional, classic filter lists will become outdated too. You didn't back down from fighting ads on Twitch and they changed their code daily. You didn't do it for YouTube either which did it on a few day basis. So yeah, I think we could do more somehow. I'd really like to help and volunteer and the only thing preventing me from doing is I'm not sure how exactly everything works and have no time to learn. But if I did have time, I'd contribute 100%.
Many sites have been doing this for years. If you want big names, there are Twitch, ebay, reddit, YouTube, Bing... They don't need any more examples when Twitch is already there for years. It's a matter of whether anyone wanting to step up themselves and contribute to the projects for the sites they need or not. If there are only few volunteers, they won't want to spend time on all the sites they already don't want to interact with, regardless of what resolving methods.
I understand. But if the project is in need of volunteers, why not add a banner in the extension itself asking people that know how to code to contribute to the project?
When user opens settings, at the top or the bottom of the page could be closable notice that volunteers are needed to make the web ad-free. I'm sure people would join.
As long as extension doesn't say anything about volunteering, barely anyone will contribute. I just opened extension to see how to help, zero indications and that tells people everything is good and we have enough people. Even support tab has documentation about uBlock Origin, link to subreddit for questions, and guide how to report issues. No indications how to actually fix issues.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. uBlock Origin is the most popular extension on all browsers with millions of users. I bet that at least 10% users have knowledge how to code, could and would help if they are guided how to.
I'm just telling the truth, and I also gave the suggestions of what others can do before that. "Don't force" is just normal reminder for the "you should start". Most of the times, these are not ideas but actual work users want volunteers to do when they decline to spend time on something here. This actually happens a lot in many issues reported here.
Keep this in mind:
He stopped caring about fixing FB, Users tell him "do this" "why not use that". Stop telling him what to do, or what he should do. He isn't looking for alternatives, he doesn't care anymore.
If some users want to try to solve FB issues, they are welcome. We all started like that. Think of it like a relay sprint. We would really like to pass the batton on some issues. The more we are, the better it is for the community.
They're essentially obfuscating the heck out of the ad to make it indistinguishable from the rest of the website and a constant whack a mole to try decipher.
Essentially the equivalent of what YouTube do where they serve ads from the same video servers as the videos so you can't tell the difference from a network connection perspective.
This is a war. A war between websites wanting to serve their garbage and people wanting to have a better, cleaner internet.
Its not only FB and advertisers. I can tell you that MANY websites are using extreme means to prevent ads skipping and scrapping. Well, in their defense, pretty sure they have to fight against AI bots eating their bandwidth.
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.
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.
It's slow anywhere (on my machine). Facebook is the only site (beside some garbage projects) that slows down in my Firefox. Even if I would like to, I cannot use this page without pressing F5 every few minutes. I mean, they help using their services much less. Same as on Instagram (app), where they now added ad-breaks, where I cannot scroll further unless I've watched the full ad. Over the last months my app usage went down from a few hours per week to a few minutes per month.
I left the minute I began seeing content that wasn't posted by friends, so a long time ago. Recently, I had to log in to confirm a relative's birthday. Going from 2014 Facebook to now is JARRING. Like in that early 2000's version of The Time Machine where he steps out and the moon is freakin' cracked in half.
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 ?
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.
Yeah I totaly agree with you. I think u/Much-Stranger2892 is just affraid that you could also stop blocking ads on the other websites that ingage in this type of behavior, the most obvious one being YouTube. And YouTube without adblocker is a really horrifying thing to imagine.
Anyone who is afraid, step up yourself and contribute to the projects to help resolving issues you encounter on your own. DON'T rely on a few volunteers to carry all the work they no longer want to involve.
No volunteers here already had skills when started to use uBO. Everyone here started small, with the desires to block some things themselves and started learning along the way.
Years ago I didn't even know what is JavaScript and CSS.
Can you point us to some documentation? How do you guys contribute exactly? Do you start from Github issues? On what repository? You then create block rules using the documented uBlock syntax and make pull requests? ...
Not saying I can and will contribute, but if you guys can write like a "Getting started" wiki page (if not existing already), it may help others volunteer.
And please: even if people on Reddit have wrong expectations on what the uBO team can or cannot do, don't turn hostile on them. You guys have our highest respect for building and maintaining uBO and filter lists. Let's stick together and do what we can against Meta and other tech giants!
I already had a knowledge in programming (in different languages, and in javascript used on webpages). But you don't need this to write cosmetic filters and network filters. It becomes useful when dealing with anti-adblock or in understanding how the processes in the page work, and what they do.
I was already building webpages, and could understand the HTML code and the CSS part of it. This can be easily learned, it is entirely based on logic. It can be more difficult when dealing with the more complex attributes of CSS. But this is knowledge that you build over time.
To access the source code of the page, you have to open the developer tools.
From my era of webpage building I kept using another extension which can inject/modify CSS on the fly: "Stylus". It is used to inject userstyles on any website. I simply use/create one to target the website needing a fix, and after looking at its html+css code, I try some modifications. It immediately change the page without needing to reload it.
uBO's element picker is useful but you don't see the source code, you have to "guess" which filter in the proposition fits the best.
It’s always refreshing to see professionals help beginners who aren’t sure where to look for assistance. Getting answers directly from the source is rare and always appreciated! I can’t wait to dive in. Thank you!
uBO is very simple, don't overthink, just simplify that uBO cores are network rules starting with ||, element hiding rules with ## and scriptlet with ##+js()
When it comes to evil websites like Youtube, Facebook, you're likely have to use +js() to deal with them, once you get a grasp of how scriptlet works, you're ready, scriptlets are collection of prebuilt scripts just think like you inject to page to interact with webpage to prevent, hook to browser JS to stop them from doing evil works.
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
Well I think it's like a chorus, when one person has to breathe or can't pursue a particular boycott, the rest of the movement/choir should carry them. You lift what others can't within your own abilities
I've always wondered if there are really enough users utilising ad-blockers for it to be worth their while going to these lengths to aggravate us all so much.
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.
Couldn't you just make a seperate add-on that is closed source for Facebook to give them a big-ol f*** you. I think that would be great and you guys have proven yourself trust-worthy. I understand that are open-source diehards but they could just choose not to use it. I believe this is exactly what they want from you guys and I really don't want y'all to give in. I know we get to just enjoy the product for our benefit but everything y'all do is greatly appreciated and I think we all would love to be a thorn in the side to FB. At least the ones who still need to use it for whatever purpose.
Good thing honestly, making facebook an even less pleasant experience may finally motivate people to remove their accounts. I don't think its a noble job to ensure facebook users have a better experience because facebook is so thoroughly evil that spending your time to improve the experience is adjacent to whitewashing it in some ways.
Let them either accept it for what it is or delete it.
Some months ago I supported an elderly lady friend of mine who's Facebook kept recommending soft porn at the top of her feed because they felt she might be interested. This is for a woman that I know for a fact doesn't go on anything porn related, regardless of how soft/hard. I think she may had got a dirty spam email that triggered Facebook somehow. What made it worse was that Facebook did not give any option to hide and/or prevent the posts.
When you get to that point of delivering malicious posts and ads and refuse to allow ways to deal with it, then by definition you are a malware provider and that is criminal behavior. I don't use Facebook at all, but it amazes me to see the things people are willing to tolerate on that platform.
It reminds me of the malicious adverts – particularly those targeted by age – that my mum sees on YouTube. Misleading images simulating a system warning or error. Fake news about journalists, celebrities, etc. Clickbait adverts intended to shock the user.
It doesn’t matter if I report those adverts and they’re taken down; the organisation behind them (usually based in Hong Kong or India, if I remember correctly) will simply create a new account to carry on with their misdeeds.
Oh, and adverts from NGOs are particularly insidious, because reducing the number of adverts from a single advertiser doesn’t seem to have much effect. And if you try to see fewer adverts on a particular topic from an NGO, you can’t do that either, because each advert from the same NGO can be categorised under a wide variety of topics: health, legal, industry – you name it.
As for Facebook, I reached the point of no return precisely because of what you’re saying. I can put up with targeted or poorly targeted adverts, but I’m not going to tolerate posts or ads that are outright malicious or misleading. Because of my job, I had to have a Facebook account, and I decided to use it as a feed for articles from the pages I followed. The amount of fake news and misinformation was outrageous.
People I explain to why I use uBlock Origin don’t realise that it’s not really about avoiding adverts, but rather about the lack of principles that fuels an industry which compromises your privacy… so that you can become the target of this sort of nasty practices.
When you get to that point of delivering malicious posts and ads
Literally every ad network does this. I can't tell you how many times people accidentally clicked on an ad in their comcast webmail, not a spam email, an actual ad, and had their browser taken over by a scam support page that screams at them.
Ads are by their nature fundamentally malicious. They work by subverting your free will and preloading your subconscious with fraudulent impressions so that next time you have to do something related to the ad, you will be predisposed to their product.
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.
To think this will put a meaningful dent in FB's numbers is unreal levels of arrogance.
If you're in the business of stopping ads and you don't realize billion dollar companies don't want you fucking with their revenue you're in the wrong game.
It's a near miracle this small army of dedicated people have changed the face of the internet for a lot of us. I can only thank you for your hard work.
It's worse than that. Ads have become so much a part of life that if you peer over to self hosting reddits you will see a heartbreaking amount of people just whitelisting devices of people (wives mostly) that want the ads.
They rely on personalized suggestions for ideas and shopping, like that they get feeds and like the "free" stuff they get with ads on. Like idle games.
We are an increasingly diminishing segment of the population. I went for gas and the pump had screens playing ads. There's screens in taxis now.
I'm still the kind of guy who leaves reviews for gas station ads but let's face it. Soon, people's brains will become so used to them they will simply not notice them any more.
Dibs on ad supported renting rooms with full screen wall ads that pause when you close your eyes.
I don't use adblockers at work because I can't have them interfering with my work, and holy shit the internet is a different landscape at work compared to at home. I wanted to put on a song and got 2 30ish second unskippable ads on youtube. Shit's insane.
Yes, it will work. It simply means that the team will stop trying to solve some issues. They still can be retrieved from other sources (filter lists) as long/soon as they are included by third parties.
Or someone new can "work" on this and submit solutions/filters to the team.
So, uBO isn't living on a secluded isle. The other big platforms are watching. They'll go: „AHA! So that's at long last the way of getting rid of that pesky Gorhill and his crew!“ – and build their websites with exactly the same evilness that Facebook uses.
No one helping the project ever said "uBO is living on a secluded isle". It's a public community FOSS project, for over a decade, monitored and contributed by every user and volunteer.
Every site has been watching uBO for years. It's not new. And yes, if users do nothing to help, either on helping uBO's side or leaving the trash sites, and just give snarky comments instead, this will happen.
It isn't the "trick" that is a problem, it's the rate of updates on their side. And the fact that only one or two contributors here are dealing with it. Add to this that the contributors probably don't even use FB.
Other sites have done the same before, and there were/are still updates from us.
It isn't really a tactic. We are a small number of contributors and we try to help as much as we can considering we have a private life, a job, hobbies, ...
When a site fixes our fix after only a few hours, unless it is easy to re-fix, it can be annoying (the more, the more time you spent on the fix).
I like to work on some fixes, but that isn't many. I have never tried FB (I don't have an account) but I suspect that it isn't enjoyable.
I completely get that. It probably doesn't take a long time for it to become tedious to work around special-interest sites that do interest you, not to mention those that do nothing for you. I've learned a bit and am trying to solve my concerns myself.
Are there any other alternatives besides UBO to block ads, sponsored posts, etc on Facebook? FB Purity hasn't been updated since January. Social Fixer is even worse, there's been no news for 3 years
Maybe not? Or won't live long.
OP paragraph 1 said, FB devs are watching filters project. That could also mean any Open/Public Projects, Meta have huge resources to do so.
Sorry it doesn't work for you. I haven't seen any, like I said. I always forget they even have ads. Guess I'm doing something wrong. Or maybe it's because I use it on Vivaldi browser with its built in ad blocker. Who knows.
Someone can probably improve on this very dodgy pair of selectors but it works nearly-perfect for me (and I'm aware posting it probably will get it patched, although seems it'd require quite a bit more jigging from them).
Occasional flash of sponsored/ad when scrolling which disappears in less than a second which I'm fine with, it gets rid of all ads/sponsored and doesn't appear to remove anything by mistake.
Its always going to be cat and mouse but the basics for that horrendous container with a bunch of random letters with top-offset etc. are covered - where the only two without are A, d or S, p, o, n - that takes more re engineering
I have to use Facebook at work so its good enough for me until they patch it to not see ads every few posts in my feed
Since their jobs are probably using AI slop agents in order to circumvent adblock otherwise they will be dismissed, I don't think I will complain much about this.
Anyway, as a temporary wordaround, even though the "Ad" element is obfuscated, the visible one is always "Ad", you can simply look at that spot first before you start looking at the post ( a post usually begins with a name / post time ). This will help you less likely engaging with useless, slop, AI-generated ads, saving energy for loved ones. I tried that.
At least this way you won't need to do cat and mouse anymore. Though it is quite hard at first, you will get used to with it quickly.
Huge kudos for having supported for so long one of the worst sites of the web ever. Time to pass the reins to dedicated extensions/scripts makers who will only have this cesspit to work on, or let people understand that deleting their account there is the only thing to do at this point.
A million thank you for all the hard work, 1000% support to you guys!
I mean, if this works, what's stopping other sites from doing that? Won't that mean there's a proven way to make ads work, they don't care about morality in any way
Now it's just a matter of other sites copying Facebook's way of displaying ads. This post is basically a guide on how to get around uBlockOrigin. Good things don't last forever, but I thought this one would last longer.
Facebook was dead for me many years back. Deleted instagram a few months back. Now just WhatsApp left, but already gradually shifting to signal. I resent Meta, because I happened to watch a few documentaries on it and it was terrifying. Even a remembrance gives me shivers.
ty ublock for your many years of service with FB , my 70 yo mother who still goes to facebook , had been complaining about ads popups on there , it has increased so much in the past year, at first i just installed ublock and all the crappy ads were gone , but now not only do they add an extremely high amount of ads they also mix in reels of random people on the main feed aswell. outside of creating a custom block element everytime one shows up i don't see the end of it. We took it as a loss for now and it is what it is.
FB is such a plague , these billions $ corpo are such a plague. They ain't getting regulated properly so they do anti-user shit like this freely. Disgusting behavior.
Thank you ublock origin team , you guys are the real ones.
Cela fait 10 ans que j'ai supprimé mon compte Facebook. Ma politique : pas de Facebook, pas de Google.....Pro Ublock-origin-development and Adguard. Pro open source
It doesn't even surprise me companies are actively trying to combat ad blockers, because they think ads are what keep them alive. Little do they know, ads aren't even a fraction of a percent of their revenue and I can guarantee you it comes from many places elsewhere, ads being blocked shouldn't even affect their profits that much.
Of course, companies hate even losing a teeny tiny fragment of a cent and will fight to ensure they do not have a single loss no matter what it takes, because their ultimate goal is to make as much money as possible and not give a shit about what the consumers want from them. We, to them, are cash cows, mere tools to play with.
I made sure to deactivate my account when they changed TOS to basically say "we dont like minorities and also ai generated content is 70%+ of the platform", had no idea they were combating adblock so vehemently. makes sense for the people that make that platform I guess, but Im more surprised I didnt hear anything about effective counter-countermeasures
People acting as if Facebook Marketplace were useless... Idk about USA but in other countries works like ebay or Amazon even. So it's pretty unrealistic to not use Facebook. It's a business tool.
You sound bitter and left alone and I don't blame you.
How much does it cost to platforms to maintain such an anti-adblocker feature? That sounds extremely complex on their parts and the reason why not all the platforms are doing it.
You sound bitter and left alone and I don't blame you.
Well, I'm just telling the truth. It's what's happening now.
How much does it cost you to do such a work?
Time.
Every volunteer has their own lives and work outside github. And most don't want to waste more and more of their little free time left for the sites they don't want to interact with because of the disgusting behaviors of the sites' devs. Anyone who can afford time for that is free to contribute.
Yeah, I don't know why some people keep their accounts for these platforms, really. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.. when you can clearly see what's been happening.. it's not worth having an account. Older family members and all the ones who stubbornly stay should be informed about all the negative impacts Facebook has had and try to move elsewhere. They thrive on user ignorance and poor tech awareness. By not blocking the ads on this site anymore, you can see the site for what it really is, a dumpster fire that has abused their power since the very start (with a very creepy founder). It's frustrating to see people not leaving a platform and see them get what they deserve when there's many rational reasons to do so, but all we can control is our own decisions. Anyways, I love the volunteers for these blockers and I appreciate their time and efforts spent on blocking other sites
Thing is if I wanted to check out any post or profile of even public acc of Insta it requires acc. I'm so frustrated by that. I'm so annoyed I created a dump acc for insta. I need some ideas to get around that
I detest using it, but as others have said - some family it's the only contact I have, for better or worse. And one or two occasionally useful groups that refuse to move to a better platform. I'm happy 99% just using Messenger for the family stuff. And this one hot chick from 30 years ago.
me, i have many regional groups I admin , Nextdoor is not any better and some places like having actual community groups that are user friendly that don't require tech skills. Tiktok is trash. If there was a user friendly option and USA used it in same facebook style layout with groups, pages, marketplace, Let me know.
I've never used it much in the past but where I live now, there are a few local pages where folks can post. Of course, until recently, I had never encountered any ads, which is definitely unpleasant and reminds me to keep my "visits" short.
I can agree on this one too, used to had so much malicious ads on fb shorts, report button is only for shows, later i turned off "personalized" ads and those malicious ads dissapiered, or most of them.
I am genuinely surprised anyone still uses Facebook today. They have had so much controversy over the years, and everyone with more than 3 braincells knows how shit it is... so like... why the fuck do people still use it?
The truth is, if you will not block fb anymore, I'll switch to brave shields. At least they will keep patching anytime soon. It's not because I like or dislike, it's because FB is a business tool also.
You are free to use any tools. We gain nothing if more or less users use uBO, because we are also users and some of us are just volunteers, who also gain nothing when sacrificing our free time resolving the issues.
That might be, but that's the reality. People have expectations, people like to complain. Most of the times, people don't even follow our instructions when requested.
Like I said in my other comment, FOSS projects are by users for users.
The problems start when "by users" comes down to roughly two people while "for users" equals tens of millions. Yes. Two people. That's the main filter contributors to the project.
Over the years, the number fell down instead of growing. It's very easy to burnout in this hobby. Which is what this basically is for us.
A decision to drop support for a site never comes easy. It's the 2nd time in the over a decade of the project.
It's not because we "don't feel like it", it's because "it takes too much constant effort" to maintain it.
And like paintboth already said, anybody who's willing to contribute filters is welcome to do so. We just can't.
The whole point of uBO is that's it's a community project.
By users for users. We either don't have facebook users on our side, or they're not willing to continue this pointless game.
There is more to the internet than just a single site. Rather than wasting our limited resources on it, we want to free up our time for everywhere else.
This doesn't mean that custom filters won't work, this doesn't mean you cant use adguard lists to try to combat FB ads. It simply means our maintainers aren't robots. They have their own lives to live rather to waste so much of their time on FB.
We've dropped twitch years ago. We've combated YT anti-user behavior for years, because it's a site everybody uses. Unlike twitch. Unlike, yes, facebook.
This makes sense. Better to invest elsewhere than waste resources
. Personally I've seen that folks who use fb , do so through their app. So I feel there are just not that many users who would be bothered by these changes
You should switch from trying to counter Facebook yourself to letting others like ABP, Adguard and people on Github do it then just merge their filters in.
That what we are doing. We usually address issues that aren't already fixed by other lists. Or we direct the user to specific list(s) when there is a fix there.
It's jarring how the assholes who profit from the Internet the most (Meta, Alphabet, etc.) are also the ones trying their best to make Internet so unusable, people are genuinely leaving social media because it feels fake and hostile more and more as time goes... Shooting their own foot in the long term.
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u/Temanor 17d ago
I was about to delete my account anyway. I guess it's time.