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uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
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[โ€“] kepix@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this shows a quite horrible example for the other tech big dogs. if they throw a small group of devs at the adblocker devs, eventually they might also win this.

a seperated closed source facebook oriented fork would be the best idea, since the enemy can see every bit of code of ublock.

[โ€“] MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Ad blocking is done client side in the browser, it's impossible to hide.

You can obfuscate, but you can do that now.