A company that removes garbage opts to stop serving the dump.

News at 11

Fair. Better to focus on ads embedded everywhere else. Not much point trying to block the ads once you're inside the ad store.

Facebook's business is ads not social interaction so that is where their efforts are channelled.

If you're using facebook, there isnt much ublock could do for you.

If you still use Facebook you don't deserve an ad free experience

0.0.0.0 facebook .com

I also have no life opportunities with people that make this place worse. Which is basically everyone. All because of a stupid website.

I have been off Facebook for 11 years now. Feels good man.

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.

Oh, it's rather simple actually.

I have Facebook, Meta, and all their various domains blacklisted on my PiHole.

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.

That’s why I block facebook entirely with DNS based blocking.

Is the shotgun approach not useful? Every post has to contain "Ad" or "sponsored", could you not exclude every post that has those words?

I am an idiot speak slowly.

Facebook and youtube would crumble completely without ads. That's where the real money is.

I only check FB at home. I have a separate Firefox profile just for it. Using Pihole. I almost never see ads. Maybe one or two will slip by. But I only spend maybe 10min on the site. 1-2 times a week.

I thought I read a post on here earlier today that said that ublock will continue to block facerook ads?

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.

I thought of a possible solution. The close to 7 figure engineers are probably vibe-coding and automating their scrambling algos already. uBO, or someone else, just needs to set up a pipeline with agentic AI analyzing the current block-blocking method to unscramble it. Release daily builds. Could be a site specific addon too, doesn't have to be a general adblock addon.

Fight AI with AI.

just block all of Facebook itself... don't target the ads, Facebook is the ad.

why do people INSIST on playing inside the dragons den? seal the fuckers up and block them entirely.

This is bad news, and I think it's quite short-sighted to assume that this will only affect Facebook.