Facebook ads and ad-blocking tools have been in a constant clash for years. But it looks like uBlock Origin is stepping away from that fight.
  • アイス@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    1 month ago

    From the article

    The same post talks about some of Facebook’s tactics for bypassing the adblockers. A user in the thread described trying to use uBlock’s element picker to block the word “Sponsored” on ads, only to find Facebook splits the word into individual letters, each wrapped in its own line of code. A member of the uBO development team confirmed this isn’t new, and that the technique has been in use for roughly five years. They also added that Facebook has at times gone further by randomizing letter order and inserting fake characters to throw off pattern-matching filters.

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      You gotta wonder what the hell facebook execs are thinking, knowing that people who specifically go out of their way to block ads are the ones their engineers are fighting tooth-and-nail to show ads to.

      Anyways my solution to this on youtube, anyways, is to click every ad i dislike, training my algorithm to advertise shit i dont want to me and bleeding money from them while promoting the creators i like/YouTube