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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

uBlock 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.

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Big enough that Facebook assigned people to continuously evade the ad blocking
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  well, ads are facebook’s primary “purpose”.

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