I mean why, it's not worth it. People who don't give a damn about privacy aren't interested in ad blockers—quite the opposite.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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Should probably just block that whole privacy nightmare of a site, to be honest.
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Seems like me finally closing my Facebook account this week was timed well.
Congrats for doing so. We all know how difficult it can be to move away from social spaces
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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.
Ad blocking is done client side in the browser, it's impossible to hide.
You can obfuscate, but you can do that now.
I guess the intersection of people who use an adblocker and who are still active on Facebook is small anyway
Big enough that Facebook assigned people to continuously evade the ad blocking
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Since some groups refuse to move off of Facebook, I use an add on to force anything tied to Facebook to its own tab container on Firefox. This is in addition to tampermonkey, ublock, and like 5 other things. I still feel like it's not enough. They are a privacy nightmare, even on other sites.
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Ads are more invasive than Zebra Mussels. We need to stop them completely! Is there even a gold standard anymore or is all economy everywhere resting on the wobbly foundation of advertising? That is, big guys making deals with other big guys to move their merch.