The obvious solution is to not use Facebook.
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
#222The only way to keep ads off Facebook is to stop using Facebook.
If you're still using Facebook, it's because you're required to or you're the kind of person who won't be fazed by this.
Marketplace. It's horrible, but the area I live in has mostly abandoned craigslist and if you want to buy/sell used stuff, marketplace is where you have to be.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#223The only way to keep ads off Facebook is to stop using Facebook.
I got a facebook account because I wanted to use marketplace. I just use one of those CSS browser plugins to hide the newsfeed which is where all the ads pop up. The following does the trick for me: [role=main] { display: none; } I also don't have any friends on it.
Marketplace has video ads that play with sound as you scroll by now. It's incredible
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#224I haven't been on Facebook for years Why are people on anything meta or musk? Then again I figured we'd be back to personal blogs by now since "AI" can set one up in seconds
Some of us plan events / engage socially.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#225I 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.
Could you publish it with a license saying it shall not be used by any Facebook employee or something?
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#226I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the mo…
You don't actually need to click on an ad or purchase something from an ad site in order for Facebook to make money selling ad space. The moment these ads are loaded on the page, real time auction occurs, where advertisers place bids algorithmically and automatically, based on your profile. Facebook makes it's money by selling this ad space. It doesn't particularly care whether you click on them or not. But if they d…
That's not true. If your ad placements don't perform, people are not going to book them. If ads are loaded or not is also often verified by independent third party trackers that you have to embed on your page next to the ad. There's whole industries built on this stuff and it's not as simple as "we sell the slot and don't care if people see it or click on it".
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got a facebook account because I wanted to use marketplace. I just use one of those CSS browser plugins to hide the newsfeed which is where all the ads pop up. The following does the trick for me: [role=main] { display: none; } I also don't have any friends on it.
Marketplace has video ads that play with sound as you scroll by now. It's incredible
Ah, well I guess I'll be seeing those soon then? I don't use Marketplace too much (and just got burned recently so I've soured on it).
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#228Controversial opinion: This entire thread reads like a game of cat-and-mouse. People trying to block intrusive ads, and FB reaching into the depths of code and making it nearly impossible for anyone to do so en masse. I've been there. Tried to uncheck all the boxes on their ad platform; used all manners of ad blockers, etc; used incognito mode; used Tor; etc. etc. etc. At some point, you realize that the only way to…
Gold advice. People should get out of there and enjoy more of their free time!
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#229Assuming you insist on using facebook you can proxy it, using a simple script that removes all ads prior to serving. The problem of course is that this is not cheap. Easier to just not use facebook.
I'm keen to see this simple script, and to understand why it's simple given that ublock origin finds it hard.
Ublock origin doesnt use javascript. The script just involves a tree traversal of the dom and removal of any node that says ad.
The issue is facebook obfuscates selectors so you cant easily do it the way ublock prefers.
Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
#230I know this is gonna be unpopular take but for modern social media to function, they need showing ads to pay creator many people livelihood depends on it, creator make content in turn of revenue sharing that user get for free
I have YouTube Premium, so I don't see ads on YouTube.