uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook • Hacker News Board

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by Rebelgecko » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

maxwellito wrote: post #113

Hot 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)

Other adblock tools have gone the route of allowing "good" ads through and only blocking "bad" ads. Of course the definition of good vs bad might depend on who sponsors the dev.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by seritools » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

rosstex wrote: post #114

why not just run a 24/7 agent to do the work for them?

why not "just" do it for them?

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by conradfr » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

Not sure detailing how Facebook demoralized them is the best idea.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by usern20260720 » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #21

Oh! The Irony! This page doesn't load when your ad blocker is turned on.

try loading it with JS off

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by iugtmkbdfil834 » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

It is an interesting experiment. Ads on my network are mostly blocked, but wife did notice a spike on her FB stuff. Now that she knows how nice ( edit: well, not automatically awful ) net is without ads, lets see if accepts the trade off.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by nemomarx » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271126

More discussion here

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by Cider9986 » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

Here's the source:

https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/

Archived comments / VPN: https://photon-reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by qbane » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

I wrote and shared uBlock Origin filters for Facebook, shared on Reddit and up to a week later they changed the DOM structure bypassed the filters. After some attempts I no longer publish the filters.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

#129

Post by dabber21 » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

Out of spite they should have a block list, blocking every meta related service, disabled by default... for now

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by amelius » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

qbane wrote: post #128

I wrote and shared uBlock Origin filters for Facebook, shared on Reddit and up to a week later they changed the DOM structure bypassed the filters. After some attempts I no longer publish the filters.

Maybe a better approach is to convert the page to an image, run OCR over it, use an LLM to remove the ads, present the result to the user.