That’s why I block facebook entirely with DNS based blocking.
They just randomize the DOM. Which is a pretty terrible thing to do. So I can completely understand why they stop blocking ads on that terrible site.
That stinks. Today is Facebook. Tomorrow it’s a site you use. I guess that means I’ll have to figure out how to block this shit elsewhere.
I found a trick to block Facebook ads without an extension…
Assuming that there isn’t a better extension out there for people to switch to, this move might push some people into quitting Facebook completely.
If you’re using uBlock origin, then you won’t see ads anywhere else. Meanwhile on Facebook, every few posts will be an ad.
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echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" >> /etc/hostsFor a hosts file, shouldn’t that be 0.0.0.0?
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Me too, I quit 15 years ago.
I never joined in the first place…
Bots hate this one simple trick!
uBlock Origin really needs to find a way to define content-based rules for sites which use DOM randomization. After all, the ads still have places where they can go and ad content is structurally always very different from actual content.
If they let Facebook win, YouTube will do it next. And a year later, uBlock Origin will have stopped working on half the web.“They” don’t use Facebook anyway and all the people using their free labor acting as through they are paying customers finally got to them. I’m with the uBlock guys on dropping Facebook when it’s such thankless painful work
Oh, it’s rather simple actually.
I have Facebook, Meta, and all their various domains blacklisted on my PiHole.
When other corps see that Facebook ads are unblockable they will copy the mechanism and uBlock Origin will become useless.
Similarly, using a dnscrypt domain filter:
I thought the story was that they aren’t individually hard to block, they just keep doing the same thing ublock was doing and directly countering the changes
In my rich fantasy life, this announcement is just a ruse, to get Facebook to drop its guard.
Real life is never as good as my rich fantasy life though.
I thought I read a post on here earlier today that said that ublock will continue to block facerook ads?
