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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (18 children)

The system seems to be;

  • Add adverts
  • Make them more intrusive
  • Add more adverts
  • Make them even more intrusive
  • Everybody is fed up with adverts because there are now more adverts than content, so introduce paid version which costs more than the company would earn on ad impressions even for a heavy user, to remove ads
  • Next step might be to add some ads to paid version?
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I stopped using Facebook years and years ago when adblockers failed to stop FB ads. I have yet to find one that actually works.

When I took a look to see if it had improved, the feed wasn't even chronological. I get posts from days ago on top and posts from hours ago buried pages in. The posts at the top of the feed are even ones I've seen before. FB has become entirely useless and only bother for the few groups that insist on using it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

traditional rules-based blockers like ublock origin fail because facebook randomizes tags and code on their pages specifically to prevent them from working well, or even at all.

fbpurity.com is designed for facebook.

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