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Facebook is openly evil and disingenuous in how it fosters addiction, circumvents ad blocking, collects personal data despite claiming otherwise, etc. Google, I

Facebook is openly evil and disingenuous in how it fosters addiction, circumvents ad blocking, collects personal data despite claiming otherwise, etc. Google, I feel, is a lot more cognizant of the ill effects of their practices and is generally trying to be less evil (except pop-up under your mouse ads which you are meant to accidentally click on)

loeg 6y ago
Taking the other statements at face value, can you talk a little bit about how Facebook circumvents ad blocking? Also, I'm a little confused by the implication that Facebook claims they do not collect personal data. In my experience, uBlock Origin is completely effective at blocking Facebook ads. Also in my experience, it is pretty clear that Facebook is collecting personal data.
- aparsons 6y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/facebook-adblockers-desktop-browser https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/facebook-... There is an ongoing arms race between Ad blockers and facebook engineers. On mobile, of course, theres no way to block ads
  - loeg 6y ago
    There may have been more of a race in 2016, I don't remember. I haven't personally seen an ad on Facebook in years. On iOS I use Purify, and don't see any ads on Facebook either. YMMV I guess.
  - timbit42 6y ago
    > On mobile, of course, theres no way to block ads You can use https://m.facebook.com/ https://m.facebook.com/ in mobile Firefox with Ublock Origin.