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wkjagt 11 minutes ago [-]
I know this is probably a very naive question, but what is the end goal putting so much effort into getting past ad blockers? Surely, someone with an ad blocker installed is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway. I don't really know what I am talking about, but I guess it's all about ad impressions that generate money, but doesn't this strategy end up making less money, because the money that's put into circumventing ad blockers isn't really generating more sales.
It's like a door to door sales person thinking that if only they could find a way to unlock my door I would buy their stuff.
SvenL 7 minutes ago [-]
Aren’t ads payed also via „impressions“, like 10k people saw your advertisement so please pay x money?
fsuts 2 minutes ago [-]
Facebook and instagram constantly email me trying to entice me to use the app. As I haven’t used it for years.
I think it’s purely to massage their Active Monthly User numbers to show growth.
hn_submit 17 minutes ago [-]
The only way to keep ads off Facebook is to stop using Facebook.
With 104 comments at the moment, that’s where the bulk of the discussion is happening.
qbane 1 hours ago [-]
I wrote and shared uBlock Origin filters for Facebook, shared on Reddit and up to a week later they changed the DOM structure bypassed the filters. After some attempts I no longer publish the filters.
amelius 58 minutes ago [-]
Maybe a better approach is to convert the page to an image, run OCR over it, use an LLM to remove the ads, present the result to the user.
ImJamal 50 minutes ago [-]
How would you comment or watch a video if you did that?
amelius 42 minutes ago [-]
You can still do that.
The only thing I'm proposing is to do the filtering on graphical data (what the user actually sees) rather than on the DOM (which can be obfuscated; and which may change every week).
I'm more surprised by the fact that people still use Facebook
skeeter2020 14 minutes ago [-]
remember the amazing show "community"?
Elroy: “I got a job through LinkedIn.”
Annie: “What? That’s crazy! People use LinkedIn?”
Elroy: “No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don’t use it.”
la_fayette 1 hours ago [-]
ok thanking the team for this work over the years. i hope yt will stay ad-free :-)
conradfr 1 hours ago [-]
Not sure detailing how Facebook demoralized them is the best idea.
mattrighetti 14 minutes ago [-]
Well, uBlock is entirely open source so...
dzonga 2 hours ago [-]
the tragedy is 'mainstreet' runs on Facebook.
not shitter, google but fb. some local business don't even have their own sites but maintain an insta / fb page.
zamadatix 1 hours ago [-]
Shitter? Edit: Ah, I assume you're referring to X (previously Twitter -> shitter taunt)
Finnucane 23 minutes ago [-]
Xitter.
ravetcofx 46 minutes ago [-]
It's where the GenX-ers and boomers are at who have money to spend
SV_BubbleTime 34 minutes ago [-]
I love how Facebook has one reputation, an Instagram has another and they often don’t match at all even though we all know it’s the exact fucking service with a different skin and theme.
makerofthings 17 minutes ago [-]
What's with this current trend of grouping GenX with Boomers? I am GenX and the difference between us and Boomers is wild. My GenX friends are on here. Boomers I know are afraid of self-checkout machines.
kotaKat 27 minutes ago [-]
the ONLY way my county communicates emergency alerts is facebook. it's absolutely wild. how do I know if I'm in a state of emergency? facebook. :)
MrDrMcCoy 15 minutes ago [-]
Your country has sold your safety to private interests. Demand better from them.
iugtmkbdfil834 1 hours ago [-]
It is an interesting experiment. Ads on my network are mostly blocked, but wife did notice a spike on her FB stuff. Now that she knows how nice ( edit: well, not automatically awful ) net is without ads, lets see if accepts the trade off.
bmurphy1976 57 minutes ago [-]
All the more reason to block Facebook completely.
vachina 46 minutes ago [-]
uBlock hit them where it hurts. Facebook's entire existence hinges on serving ads.
tonyhart7 11 minutes ago [-]
I know this is gonna be unpopular take
but for modern social media to function, they need showing ads to pay creator
many people livelihood depends on it, creator make content in turn of revenue sharing that user get for free
dabber21 58 minutes ago [-]
Out of spite they should have a block list, blocking every meta related service, disabled by default... for now
maxwellito 1 hours ago [-]
Hot take: uBlock origin could insert even MORE ads into Facebook? Discouraging people to use Facebook, and also make some money on the side.
(this is a joke obviously, but boy that would be fun and against the T&C)
Rebelgecko 1 hours ago [-]
Other adblock tools have gone the route of allowing "good" ads through and only blocking "bad" ads. Of course the definition of good vs bad might depend on who sponsors the dev.
zeafoamrun 1 hours ago [-]
I misread the domain as "digital cesspools" and that is indeed what Facebook is. If you're still on there you're going to get subjected to their abusive practices.
OhMeadhbh 3 hours ago [-]
Oh! The Irony! This page doesn't load when your ad blocker is turned on.
Pooge 12 minutes ago [-]
Are you not using uBlock Origin?
OhMeadhbh 3 hours ago [-]
Apropos of nothing, I noted @markoff said they liked John Markoff in the 80s. As a complete aside, may I recommend to readers Markoff's book "What the Dormouse Said." From 2005, it's a deep-dive into the relationship between 60s counter-culture and 70s / 80s era microcomputer movers and shakers. Want to read about Doug Engelbart tripping balls in the Santa Cruz Mountains? It's in there. Or maybe I just made that up in a LSD fueled trip to the center of my mind. But that KIND of thing is in there. Abbie Hoffman somehow influenced Steve Jobs fascination with PARC derived WIMP systems. An image of Richard Nixon getting his face punched was burned into the original PC BIOS ROMs. Tim O'Leary developed software in the 80s. One of these is not true, but you have to read the book to find out which.
It's like a door to door sales person thinking that if only they could find a way to unlock my door I would buy their stuff.
I think it’s purely to massage their Active Monthly User numbers to show growth.
More discussion here
The only thing I'm proposing is to do the filtering on graphical data (what the user actually sees) rather than on the DOM (which can be obfuscated; and which may change every week).
https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/
Archived comments / VPN: https://photon-reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/
Elroy: “I got a job through LinkedIn.”
Annie: “What? That’s crazy! People use LinkedIn?”
Elroy: “No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don’t use it.”
not shitter, google but fb. some local business don't even have their own sites but maintain an insta / fb page.
but for modern social media to function, they need showing ads to pay creator
many people livelihood depends on it, creator make content in turn of revenue sharing that user get for free
(this is a joke obviously, but boy that would be fun and against the T&C)
https://search.worldcat.org/title/57068812