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Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 month ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh, it's rather simple actually.

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

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[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

When other corps see that Facebook ads are unblockable they will copy the mechanism and uBlock Origin will become useless.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Similarly, using a dnscrypt domain filter:

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