> Facebook has been at war with ad blockers since at least 2016, when Andrew Bosworth, then the company’s VP of Ads & Business Platform, said in a blog post tha

> Facebook has been at war with ad blockers since at least 2016, when Andrew Bosworth, then the company’s VP of Ads & Business Platform, said in a blog post that Facebook’s ads were so “relevant,” “well-made,” and “useful” that Bosworth wrote, “we’ll also begin showing ads on Facebook desktop for people who currently use ad blocking software”—in other words, overriding the user’s software with code tricks. This excuse is so disingenuous that it would have been better to have said nothing at all.