Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
I think people are underestimating how important the YouTube thing is.
If they succeed, the entire ad funded internet are going to clone what they do.
It will effect everyone everywhere, whether you run an adblocker or not.
It will benefit the large corporations and choke out the smaller people. It will consolidate control and wealth.
75I find it quite dubious their claim of it blocking posts from friends, vs. ads. Friends don't post ads, so if it's blocking posts, they are inserting ads colored up as "friend posts".
63So this is how it will start.
First it will be a back and forth war of Anti-adblockers vs Adblockers
Then when the Anti-Adblockers start to lose, which they will, then they'll come crying to various governments with massic PAC campaigns among other insane garbage about how "Adblockers are Piracy!" and that they need to be banned.
This will not end well.
61LOL, if you block ads they'll hide a message from one of your friends that you never would have seen anyway because it would've been buried in ads.
I think this is good though. I think this is just what a lot of people need to get them off FB. I mean... have you tried surfing the www without an ad blocker? I'd rather not use the www.
55Stop using Facebook.
49I'd rather have some false positives than a single unblocked ad.
46They ain’t my friends if they be posting ads.
40It’s been for a long time but not overtly. (I’ve never used it, this is someone else’s screenshot)
Facebook splitting the word "Sponsored" to bypass adblockers – r/assholedesign39So they're essentially admitting that their advertisements are indistinguishable from your friend's posts which are the actual reason you visit the site in the first place. It doesn't matter anyway anymore. Facebook has buried friends list content among absolute bullshit you have zero desire to see. I visited a while ago and 99% of what I was shown was ridiculous groups I tried to block. But there are millions of them. You can block a thousand groups and there's 999 thousand more that are just like it, waiting to take their place. Facebook is supposed to have this super algorithm that determines what users want to see. If that's the case, why are they incapable of detecting that I am actively opposed to certain types of content? Maybe they think they're going to outrage me enough to engage on this bullshit? Nah, I'll just leave. Bye, fuck-faces.
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27Good. Facebook should just die.
23Oh no! Anyway...
15Loooooooooooool as if there was a single fuckin thing on Facebook I wanted to see badly enough to disable my ad blocker.
15It didn't even say please
At least try to be polite so I can politely say go f yourself
14Everyone should be using the Facebook addon "Facebook Purity" if they are still using the platform. I've been using it for over a decade and I can't stand using Facebook without it…
They are always a few steps ahead of Facebook and work well with other blockers.
Not only that, you can block specific parts of Facebook, not just the adverts. You can block the shorts, people you know, groups, keywords, and even whole topics.
You can change settings, like how you see your feed and it will stay changed.
Changing the font size, type, spacing in addition a bunch of color and night mode options are just icing on the cake.
In my professional opinion, it's the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one's sanity.
11What a shame.
9I'm sure there isn't, but it feels like that kind of wording should be reportable.
They reworded it to make it seem like it was the adblocker's fault you were losing friend posts, speaking as if the ads were a second thought
When adblockers don't actually target posts, meaning facebook would have to be the ones doing it.
8🥲 I have a friend !
8Uh yeah, I paid for YouTube Premium, I purged my accounts on Facebook, they are not the same. It does make me happy when platforms that abuse their privilege like Facebook begin doing things that will bring them closer to their end.
8I actually got a notice like this several months ago even before YouTube did theirs.
If anything, Facebook's quite infamous for trying to combat and blockers in general. I remember back then when they obfuscated their web layout so much that it got tricky for some to filter or block sponsored or recommended content.
6I love how both Meta and YT will Barbara Streisand Ad Blockers into the spotlight. Most people do not use ad blockers and all these News will make them more aware of it.
5Oh no! I'll have to keep on not using Facebook.
5Oh wow, big tech single-handedly curing my internet addiction! Love it!
4Yeah! now it's turn of facebook to grow friendi.ca
4"Your ad blocker is--" uh, uh, uh, it wasn't doing that before you pushed a malicious commit to make it do that from your side. How about you turn off your ad CDNs?
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2Great. Can't wait for this update to reach mobile devices. More people need to realize how scammy these tech mega-corps are.
2Reminder that Facebook hates you and pays people to develop ways to manipulate and control your behavior. Request to download your account data, delete your account, and go outside. It's less scary than you're making it and you'll feel better in the end.
2Hackers are always steps ahead. Not malicious hackers I mean. Screw them, but the ones created Linux, Firefox and adblockers.
1Seems bold of them to assume who your friends are. Glad I never used that site.
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