I misread the domain as "digital cesspools" and that is indeed what Facebook is. If you're still on there you're going to get subjected to their abusive practices.
uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
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Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#112The best way to do this is block Facebook entirely.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#113Hot take: uBlock origin could insert even MORE ads into Facebook? Discouraging people to use Facebook, and also make some money on the side.
(this is a joke obviously, but boy that would be fun and against the T&C)
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#114why not just run a 24/7 agent to do the work for them?
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the first and only use-case for LLMs that I am genuinely excited about.
Such naïveté. The much more likely scenario is that AI is used to add or replace ads in a website in a way that's now impossible to remove. Running your own AI on the browser will be disallowed to "ensure a safe browsing experience".
I wonder how far we are away from AI being required to link to the TPM in a way that the OS and hardware people can have full authority on what you can use.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Local models are not the same as the giant ones in data centers. They're in about the about the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings. Sure, it's more computationally-expensive than running an HTML selection, but it's also not "staggering" by any reasonable stretch.
I think “staggering” is a pretty accurate way of putting it if blocking ads is in the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings.
If the computational requirement is within the realm of another normal day to day task, and if it cannot generally achieved with another cheaper approach, it would be contradictory to say it is staggering.
I would agree if this was an easily solvable problem with classical approaches. Clearly it is not, since even uBlock is giving up.
At any rate, "staggering" is relative. White-labeled web browsers becoming the most common GUI engine would have made an engineer's eyes water 20 years ago.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#117Oh! The Irony! This page doesn't load when your ad blocker is turned on.
It works here.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#118Oh! The Irony! This page doesn't load when your ad blocker is turned on.
Not for me (Wipr2 on Safari), loads fine without ADS.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#119the tragedy is 'mainstreet' runs on Facebook. not shitter, google but fb. some local business don't even have their own sites but maintain an insta / fb page.
Shitter? Edit: Ah, I assume you're referring to X (previously Twitter -> shitter taunt)
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#120ok thanking the team for this work over the years. i hope yt will stay ad-free :-)