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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

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Post by danillonunes »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #77

The approach they should have taken is to start whitelisting the components that are not ads. Think of how the structure of Meta is gonna work, there's some team in charge of ads who has a sub team now in charge of messing with the ads to stop them being blocked. If you start whitelisting everything that isn't an ad you move the problem into an area the team in charge of blocking the ads don't have control over. High…

Can't they mimic the structure of legit content to get passed on the whitelist?

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

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Post by drcongo »

1over137 wrote: post #74
drcongo wrote: post #5

It's easy, just block every Facebook owned domain there is. Works for me.

Where do you get the list of "every Facebook owned domain"? Can you share?

A quick search on Kagi turns up a ton of them. Here you go: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...

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

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Post by StableAlkyne »

pjc50 wrote: post #59
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so it's very hard to write selectors against This sounds perfectly matched for an on-device LLM?

The power cost of doing this widely would be staggering, surely?

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.

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

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Post by m348e912 »

zenoprax wrote: post #83
neuralkoi wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently found this out the hard way. Instagram’s web app has a super annoying popup. To click the comments button for a post, your cursor has to pass over the username, which just happens to launch a profile preview with the “follow” button exactly where the comments button was, causing you to unintentionally follow the account. I tried to block this popup with uBlock Origin to no avail. No matter what element I s…

A counter example: I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday but it turns out uBlock can filter out the ads, boilerplate, sidebars, join/login buttons etc on the main site. It's actually faster and more usable than the old site now. Small win.

>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday

It appears to still be up for me. ??

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

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Post by tamimio »

I mean the ultimate solution is block fecebook entirely and any and all its other companies/domains, but I think the best approach is not to block ads, but to block everything and only let the text and other useable html code out, that can’t be countered as your filter is not going after specific match they try to hide behind some long tags, rather than blocking all and just pass the readable useful buttons.

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

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Post by dayone1 »

zenoprax wrote: post #83
neuralkoi wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently found this out the hard way. Instagram’s web app has a super annoying popup. To click the comments button for a post, your cursor has to pass over the username, which just happens to launch a profile preview with the “follow” button exactly where the comments button was, causing you to unintentionally follow the account. I tried to block this popup with uBlock Origin to no avail. No matter what element I s…

A counter example: I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday but it turns out uBlock can filter out the ads, boilerplate, sidebars, join/login buttons etc on the main site. It's actually faster and more usable than the old site now. Small win.

How do you filter it out? Do you select each element individually?
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