From xcancel:

The team behind uAssets, the filter lists used by uBlock Origin, says it will stop fixing ad-blocking issues on Facebook. They say Facebook keeps finding ways around new fixes, making the work increasingly difficult to sustain.

This won’t affect AdGuard’s Facebook filters. We maintain our own rules and will continue updating them.

There’s nothing to celebrate here. It shows how hard it is for small, often volunteer-run teams to keep up with tech giants — and how important their work is for everyone who wants more control over what they see online

uBlock Origin offers some AdGuard rule sets, so I don’t know exactly what this means for existing uBO users.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    You can block Facebook ads by blocking the Facebook domains. This is what I do, anyway.

    Even if you get through the ads, there’s nothing of value there. At best, you’re maintaining superficial relationships while wading through AI slop and ragebait. If you haven’t actually talked to the person in years, consider whether there’s even a real connection there or if you’re just inflating each other’s egos by pressing a like button every couple weeks.

    • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      13 days ago

      I think some of us remember MySpace days, when you reconnected with old friends and quickly remembered why you’re no longer friends. For my cohort, Facebook solved a solved problem. Once I got anything other than from friends, I bounced. Haven’t talked to a few since, but if that’s their bag, more power to them.

  • turdburglar@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    yeah it’s probably a lotta work for a platform that is, i’d imagine, fairly unpopular for the crowd that actually uses ublock.

    • Sina@beehaw.org
      1·
      7 days ago

      I’d imagine the opposite. Facebook is just difficult to skip for most of us. As much as I hate it, I need Marketplace and Groups…

    • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Facebook users are the parents, aunts, uncles, and technologically illiterate friends of uBO users :)

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    When I used Facebook I would use this GreasyFork script with the ViolentMonkey extension. That’s about as close as I ever got to a “clean” Facebook experience. I think it works because it doesn’t rely on DNS or domains, but rather the “sponsored” tag in elements, which they can’t legally remove. But I’m not a programmer so feel free to review the code and correct me.

    • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Website seems kinda sus (via Reddit)

      My experience with StackSocial is mixed. Yes, I did buy MS Office Professional 2021 from them, and successfully downloaded the software, and the product key worked for me. The software functions as expected. However, I started getting massive amounts of spam, mostly from east European countries, in my inbox. I had to block the spam country codes on my email provider’s webpage (Yahoo) and route the email from Stack Social, which they send out multiple times per day, to my Junk folder automatically. It took a while to get rid of most of the spam. I still get an odd one here and there after 2 years.

      I’d take the deal if I knew it was basically a donation towards whoever’s maintaining the filters, I’m just not sure about where that cash is going.

      And in a case like this I’d want to use a disposable email address and disposable card for the actual purchase. Which I have (hooray) but most people may not