I would love to donate to ublock origin but the dev actively doesn't want money
i don't like the "giving up the fight" framing.
Maybe they should stop providing this service for all the big players. people might actually leave if they suffer all the ads.
Nice try, YouTube.
It's quite fine; who uses Facebook nowadays?
Unfortunately, it’s the only used marketplace that still exists in my city.
The venn diagram of uBlock Origin users and Facebook users is two completely separate circles.
Stop wasting effort and block all facebook ads with this one weird trick. Slop devs hate him!
I blocked all those on the router-side for a while. Suddenly I couldn’t take calls on WhatsApp anymore. Makes you wonder, dunnit?
I also only have one friend left who I can’t get to move to Signal. Motherfucker is gonna get an ultimatum from me soon, I’m tired of Meta and their shit.
WhatsApp is literally made by the same people as Facebook, why are you surprised? Signal is great!
Careful, this is how you make the key cards to the server room stop working 😆
The dev comments say a lot:
https://old.reddit.com/user/paintboth1234
No one helping the project ever said "uBO is living on a secluded isle". It's a public community FOSS project, for over a decade, monitored and contributed by every user and volunteer. Every site has been watching uBO for years. It's not new. And yes, if users do nothing to help, either on helping uBO's side or leaving the trash sites, and just give snarky comments instead, this will happen.
The message is clear to me; UBO devs are sick of a sick of a sea of users constantly complaining about imperfect Facebook blocking, who won’t contribute anything nor lift a finger to limit/adapt their own usage. They’re sick of slaving away fighting six-figure-salary Facebook devs, whose only job is to counter adblock, where UBO’s only compensation is more pretentious complaints.
It’s not a technical limitation, persay. It kinda a “Why are we doing this to ourselves? If you all want us to support Facebook, fine; we welcome PRs.”
Which is totally fair.
To me, it sounds like UBO could drop other overtly hostile sites, too. As they should.
The comments on Reddit are fucking insane, they literally read like they're from Facebook itself.
Lemmy / the Fediverse is far from perfect but I'm so glad the discussions here aren't so entitled and selfish.
This is my pet peeve!
If they really have to use it, there are TONS of other tools to debloat Facebook, including checkboxes for extra filters IN UBO.
Did they lift a finger to even check?
Nope. Not even a freaking pinky. Yet they act like entitled subject experts in the comments.
This is my absolute trigger. If someone is gonna complain about something, at least do a cursory search about the problem instead of pretending like you’re omniscient.
But also, I understand that algorithmic social media (like Facebook, and now Reddit) has trained people to expect information to come to them.
If it’s not already in their feed, it doesn’t exist. The idea of “hmm, I wonder if anything else cleans up Facebook” didn’t even occur to them, despite how apparently existential the issue is.
It’s like the whole planet has forgotten how to seek knowledge out.
People's problem solving skills, curiosity and creative thinking have absolutely gone to shit
I don't know how to fix this cause most people seem to think they have to use social media, yet have absolutely no interest in understanding how to better use technology in general
If the Meta devs find their work drying up as a result and are risking a layoff, they could always contribute anonymously to keep the racket going perpetually.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of other adblockers to target.
That, and they're probably ridiculously burnt out, from what I hear about Meta. They're gonna quiet quit or work on something else in their queue before making more work.
correct link to comm6: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_disgusting_facebook_devs/p34f5a6/
I know a way you can never see a Facebook ad ever again.
Why the fuck do articles like this keep using that Pirat_Nation Twitter account as a source? They’re a far right culture warrior who never actually links to the original reporting.
That "article" is obviously AI generated; that whole page should be blocked from this community.
I get the reasoning, but this is pretty sad. My older parents are frequently more and more fooled by sponsored Facebook posts with some fake product they want to buy, then all of a sudden they have "YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED" notification spam that takes up half their screen. It's not to a ridiculous degree, maybe 3 times a year on average, but it's happening more often recently.
I use uBlock to keep them safe. If this starts not blocking any ads, I'm not sure what else to do. Is Brave going to keep up?
"Get them off Facebook" isn't an option. They're old, and it's how they connect with their friends and get fulfilment. As disgusting as Facebook is, it's too far gone at this point, I can't take that away from them.
My mom got a new laptop and had been logged into Facebook for maybe 5 minutes when she got hit with one of those fake malware ads and freaked out about it. I don't even get it, I know for a fact she's encountered shit like that before.
The most annoying part about this is:
...People can use more than one app. You can say "well, if you wanna talk to me, I'll be on this messenger here." And thats how you get their foot in the door.
It's really shouldn't be that hard, yet it feels like asking someone to pull their teeth out.
I swear this happens to me every single year, and I honestly don't know if Facebook is intercepting my messages because I don't know where the confusion comes from (aside my old brain not remembering the name of Facebook products):
"I'll send you a text message with the address"
"I don't see anything in messenger"
"What? what's messenger? I'm sending you a text message on the phone. Look at your phone"
"I'm looking at the phone I still don't see anything in messenger"
"What's messenger??????"
"I use it for all my messages"
"...and this is from Samsung?"
"No it's Facebook"
I am relatively tech literate and I have troubles remembering every canal I have to use to join all of my contacts. I have like 6 or 7 different ones.
Meanwhile, my father can't remember one password to save his life, and my grandfather tries answering the phone on a TV remote. Good luck with that.
The people who refuse to get off Facebook can contact me via text. Everyone has a cell phone.
I don't know if you saw this post yet, but at least somebody is maintaining a Facebook filter list. Hopefully that means you can keep using uBO in peace, provided the right lists are enabled.
“Get them off Facebook” isn’t an option. They’re old, and it’s how they connect with their friends and get fulfilment.
This is exactly the kind of mentality that Meta preys upon. Create a new community. Invite them. Invite your family. Invite their friends. There is no other option. As long as we continue to capitulate to them, they will continue to exploit their power to harm their users.
Spoken like someone who has clearly never actually tried to put that kind of thing into practice.
And I've given up on Facebook ages ago. You should too.
Me as well been close to 10yrs, fuck zuck he should eat the barrel of his shotgun
Can't they just block facebook.com as whole and call it a day ?
I agree. Make a pop-up and tell the user Facebook is determined to monetize and track every moment they're on the site. If they want to continue they'll get an unfiltered experience and may God have mercy on their souls.
The perfect solution.
Not that I use Facebook myself, but I think this was a misstep in the U block team.
All this did was tell the major companies out there that the only thing they have to do to make it so u block origins no longer works on their site is to make it extremely tedious for the team working on the project to make filters. So I expect that now that they've officially dropped support for Facebook, the other major sites are going to look at how Facebook is doing it, and they're going to adopt a similar systems
Companies absolutely can pay people solely to combat ad blockers. That will always win. Facebook doesn't have a "system" other than always changing their system. Any company can constantly change how they display ads. The ad blockers are just always playing catch up until the corporation exhausts the volunteers energy.
If the solution is to get new volunteers to keep up the work, why don't we have people willing to take on that role? Most people that have the know how arent using facebook anyway, so there's no motivation from them.
Without legislature to enforce some rules on corporations, the ones with the money will always win.
This looks like the problem here isn't a technical one, like how to best render a site.
The problem is that some of us (too many) have become dependent on hostile systems (machines + hostile owners + desperate humans willing to serve the owners in exchang for bread aka the employees).
The solution as I see it is twofold:
I wonder what kind if person thinks "you know what, today I will go in an make the world a little bit worse than it was before"...I simply cannot understand how people are willingly working at a place like Meta.
Not to defend them too much but I'd assume that a lot of the employees are just trying to make a living. The department I'm working at was recently taken over and I have a mortgage and a kid so even if I morally disagree with some of the practices of my new employer I can't just quit without uprooting the lives of my family.
It's the same for the majority of workers stuck in big corporate jobs. The capitalist orphan crushing machine will crush all in the end. Not just the orphans.
I love that i can curse here like the caveman I am:
Me no like Fart Fuckerberg. FUCK Shart Fuckerberg
Fuck fuckerbergzuckerfuck in the neck!
Let me preface this by saying that I am generally against AI and I hate LLMs being pushed everywhere, but I currently hate facebook and social media even more than AI.
I think that ad blocking might actually be a good use of a model trained to detect ads: AI models are "black boxes" and it would make it difficult for facebook to find out precisely how the detection works and workaround it. Imagine a tiny classifier running locally, whose only job is to look at a post html or resulting rendered pixels and detecting if it's an ad or not, and then generating the blocking rules.
It would be quite cool, because it would work on any website without an explicit list of ad-blocking rules that somebody needs to maintain.
But if you block ads on Facebook, then what will you read? When I accidentally go to my profile, it's a post from someone I actually follow for every 20 sponsored posts. It's a website to watch ads, then every once of a while your ad viewing session is interrupted by some real content
The rest is "suggested" content. It's not an ad, just posts from accounts the algorithm thinks you should see.
If I don't like it and there's no way to tell them to never show me irrelevant shit, then, while not technically an ad, it's practically an ad
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