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uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
digitalescapetools.comuBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off FacebookuBlock Origin's volunteer team will no longer chase Facebook's shifting ad-detection tricks, calling it a 'disgusting anti-user site.' Here's what that means for your feed.
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
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.
Replying to @kepix@lemmy.world
Ad blocking is done client side in the browser, it’s impossible to hide.
You can obfuscate, but you can do that now.