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> Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files? I don’t want to read the whole thing because I don’t care too much, so I may be a litt

by bzb6 6y ago

> Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files? I don’t want to read the whole thing because I don’t care too much, so I may be a little bit off topic here, but afaik nobody has managed to block Facebook’s sponsored posts with these lists.

everdrive 6y ago
It's very easy to block them: don't visit facebook, and you'll never see the ads.
- paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Certainly an effective strategy which most would call boycott. Blocking ads implies consuming the content without the ads.
  - SllX 6y ago
    Boycott implies some form of coordination that’s more than just rejecting the premise and/or use of Facebook.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  Messenger is the best thing facebook has done imo. Since facebook is like a driver's license atm, you can be certain other people use it and having a chat client tied to it is very nice to have. I know we all like to rip on them but at least it's better than WhatsApp or discord where someone has to actively create and account and learn the platform before using it.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    > Since facebook is like a driver's license atm, you can be certain other people use it and having a chat client tied to it is very nice to have. This is an unfortunate situation to be in.
    - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
      I agree but fighting against a culturally accepted standard isn't the issue. It's what everyone uses. Thinking it's not as private as IRC doesn't change the fact that it's easier to get on facebook than it is IRC.
- thomastjeffery 6y ago
  That's "avoid", not "block".
sseagull 6y ago
I have managed to block them with some filters & ublock origin. At least for now. Reading posts on r/uBlockOrigin, there seem to be multiple versions of facebook, and what works for some doesn't work for others. I don't use facebook too often, but if adblock really stops working, I will completely abandon it. Before I found the correct filters, my usage did drop, since every other post (literally) was an ad.
jsheard 6y ago
Twitch has also been successful at bypassing adblockers over the last few months
- drenvuk 6y ago
  Nah, we're winning now.
  - jsheard 6y ago
    What's the current workaround? uBlock Origin isn't working for me and the earlier userscripts I saw were broken by Twitch
    - rasz 6y ago
      First was uBlock scriptlet patching window.fetch and replacing player_type=site with twitch_everywhere, facebook, embed, thunderdome, animated_thumbnails, dashboard. Every time took couple of days for twitch to patch it, including just saying fuck it and starting to play prerolls in the dashboard. Then extension .on webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders to override user-agent Googlebot Mediapartners-Google LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Apache-HttpClient +http://www.linkedin.com) those also no longer work. Then someone discovered there arent any ads in the embeds so someone else wrote userscript replacing Video element with embed ;-) and finally we are back to patching webRequest to spoof being an embed. All this cat and mouse will go away as soon as Chrome V3 manifest lands and kills blocking webRequest, because privacy or something (V3 still lets you spy on all webRequests, just not override them ...) :/
- artvark11 6y ago
  Only if you use their website. It's invested with ads and tracking. You can use a desktop client to play the stream in a native player and irc for the chat. https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/ https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/
  - regecks 6y ago
lostmsu 6y ago
Yeah, I have a separate extension just for Facebook. And also a separate browser profile.
GeekFortyTwo 6y ago
I had recently noticed this was starting to drive me nuts as I block a lot of other in my day to day life and facebook has been getting through. Went looking for a paid option on Facebook to remove ads, like youtube premium which I enjoy, but they are very much against doing this. I guess when your entire organization becomes about selling ads, the team that wants to just make money directly gets shouted down.
lakkal 6y ago
I don't spend much time on Facebook, but I use a Firefox extension from here: https://www.fbpurity.com/ https://www.fbpurity.com/ which lets you get rid of (hide) a lot of the junk, including sponsored stuff. It would be unbearable for me otherwise.

by bzb6 6y ago

everdrive 6y ago

It's very easy to block them: don't visit facebook, and you'll never see the ads.

paulryanrogers 6y ago
Certainly an effective strategy which most would call boycott. Blocking ads implies consuming the content without the ads.
- SllX 6y ago
  Boycott implies some form of coordination that’s more than just rejecting the premise and/or use of Facebook.
MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
Messenger is the best thing facebook has done imo. Since facebook is like a driver's license atm, you can be certain other people use it and having a chat client tied to it is very nice to have. I know we all like to rip on them but at least it's better than WhatsApp or discord where someone has to actively create and account and learn the platform before using it.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  > Since facebook is like a driver's license atm, you can be certain other people use it and having a chat client tied to it is very nice to have. This is an unfortunate situation to be in.
  - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    I agree but fighting against a culturally accepted standard isn't the issue. It's what everyone uses. Thinking it's not as private as IRC doesn't change the fact that it's easier to get on facebook than it is IRC.
thomastjeffery 6y ago
That's "avoid", not "block".

sseagull 6y ago

I have managed to block them with some filters & ublock origin. At least for now. Reading posts on r/uBlockOrigin, there seem to be multiple versions of facebook, and what works for some doesn't work for others. I don't use facebook too often, but if adblock really stops working, I will completely abandon it. Before I found the correct filters, my usage did drop, since every other post (literally) was an ad.

jsheard 6y ago

Twitch has also been successful at bypassing adblockers over the last few months

drenvuk 6y ago
Nah, we're winning now.
- jsheard 6y ago
  What's the current workaround? uBlock Origin isn't working for me and the earlier userscripts I saw were broken by Twitch
  - rasz 6y ago
    First was uBlock scriptlet patching window.fetch and replacing player_type=site with twitch_everywhere, facebook, embed, thunderdome, animated_thumbnails, dashboard. Every time took couple of days for twitch to patch it, including just saying fuck it and starting to play prerolls in the dashboard. Then extension .on webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders to override user-agent Googlebot Mediapartners-Google LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Apache-HttpClient +http://www.linkedin.com) those also no longer work. Then someone discovered there arent any ads in the embeds so someone else wrote userscript replacing Video element with embed ;-) and finally we are back to patching webRequest to spoof being an embed. All this cat and mouse will go away as soon as Chrome V3 manifest lands and kills blocking webRequest, because privacy or something (V3 still lets you spy on all webRequests, just not override them ...) :/
artvark11 6y ago
Only if you use their website. It's invested with ads and tracking. You can use a desktop client to play the stream in a native player and irc for the chat. https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/ https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/
- regecks 6y ago

lostmsu 6y ago

Yeah, I have a separate extension just for Facebook. And also a separate browser profile.

GeekFortyTwo 6y ago

I had recently noticed this was starting to drive me nuts as I block a lot of other in my day to day life and facebook has been getting through. Went looking for a paid option on Facebook to remove ads, like youtube premium which I enjoy, but they are very much against doing this. I guess when your entire organization becomes about selling ads, the team that wants to just make money directly gets shouted down.

lakkal 6y ago

I don't spend much time on Facebook, but I use a Firefox extension from here: https://www.fbpurity.com/ https://www.fbpurity.com/ which lets you get rid of (hide) a lot of the junk, including sponsored stuff. It would be unbearable for me otherwise.