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Facebook Blocks Ad Blockers, but It Strives to Make Ads More Relevant
- benologist 10y agoThis won't end well for Facebook. Nobody joined or visits to view ads, no person wishes they were "more relevant". Forcing the ones who explicitly opted out to disable their ad blockers is forcing them to evaluate whether they want to visit your site at all. The only thing unique about Facebook is people collectively like it more than the alternatives right now.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoThey won't be forced to disable their ad blocker. Their ad blocked just won't work on Facebook's ads because the ads will be served from the same place the Facebook content is.
- teaneedz 10y agoSince legalese needs to accompany ads, what's to prevent blockers from blocking certain elements that contain it? Just serving ads from the same domain can't possibly be the only "solution" FB is relying on.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoNot just the same domain, they'll likely serve the ad assets from the same location as the standard Facebook assets. So images from the same place they serve profile and photo assets. Javascript will likely be a single JS file with both the Facebook JS (required for FB to work) and the ad JS. The individual ads will likely be within elements that change id and class so those can't be blocked either.
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