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the 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.
It's where the GenX-ers and boomers are at who have money to spend
So basically Facebook ads won and we are doomed
My solution to this was just to stop using Facebook. Though evidently someone's cut a deal because Facebook groups is all over Google search results these days.
Well clearly you'll need to stop using Google search too
Isn't there a browser plugin to do that for Google too?
Facebook is trying so hard to defeat adblockers that the actual website is borderilne unusable. I have found in the past year or so that pages just get hung on "loading" transitional screens way more often, even in normal circumstances. They need to surrender this whole anti-adblocker crusade because it will kill them in the long run (along with the billion other problems FB has)
Now, that's something I would love to see in my lifetime.
the 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.
They do this by adding a ton of useless markup and splitting words like "ad" into single-letter spans with random class names and 8-layer deep nests of ` ` so it's very hard to write selectors against. One has to wonder how that div soup affects accessibility as I find it very unlikely that this content is presented nicely to assistive tools. I hope they get all the ADA suits they deserve for this.
Last I tried writing custom rules for Facebook was years ago, but they did have proper aria attributes, and uBlock origin does have selectors for text content. These are from 2020: facebook.com##span:has-text(Suggested for You):xpath(../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..) facebook.com##div[aria-label="Sponsored"] span[aria-label="Sponsored"]:xpath(../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../…
The immediate fix to this is regulatory action. Facebook has made itself indispensable in a number of areas that are in the public interest and should be treated as a public good for these purposes. Ads are pollution, and Facebook is forcing people to choose between ingesting pollution and using facebook marketplace, or throwing their used but functional goods in the garbage.
Alternatively, eventually they will publish where the audience is, if the audience is not on facebook then they will publish somewhere else.
Once LLMs get fast enough at processing real-time images Apple (or anybody really) can just roll out a browser rendering engine that just masks all ads. It will take a few years but the browser ad-business is in it's terminal phase.
Given that Safari doesn't even have a built-in ad-blocker, I doubt Apple will be leading the charge on this. Such a move would also presumably be incompatible with Apple's highly lucrative search engine deal with Google.