uBlock Origin maintainers have decided to stop continuously updating filters specifically to keep up with Facebook’s latest ad-blocking countermeasures.
Existing filters will remain, but new Facebook techniques may eventually bypass them. The decision highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between ad blockers and advertising platforms.
Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
Oh no... anyway.
I mean really, who uses FB anymore?
I mean, there's a lot of companies that have Facebook tracking pixels on their page, so there's a shadow profile of people that are exposed to them Facebook holds, plus Facebook owns Instagram and I believe WhatsApp, which are some of the most widely used apps on the planet.
reddit is using tracking pixel (I believe w/ google) as I can't make an account w/o it getting insta banded on the machine I originally got banned on for a mistake.
As for IG/Whatsapp I never had any account for either so nothing lost their for me. And no FB so they aren't tracking me.
As for my reddit ban it was so stupid, I used RES and have accounts for general browsing and specialized hobbies of mine. Accidentally posted in an sub I was banned for no reason (remember the blanket bans?) on my hobby acct that wasn't banned.
Boom ban evasion, 4 account insta banned across board. I VPN and flip locations between accounts as thats how they used to track you. They got something new as I had accts I never posted on get banned. So its not text pattern recognition. Something on that machine is tattling on me to reddit.
Unfortunately all the good deals are on marketplace.
So I hear, its a shame that Craigs List isn't still popular. No ads, no AI slop, never have to relearn the interface, just works.
Market Place would do even better if you could use it w/o social media side, having to give up your phone number, are they forcing ID verification? Wouldn't surprise me if they were. Can't do it.
And Craigslist search is much better.
I swear, Facebook makes their marketplace search shitty on purpose, so you'll spend more time on their site searching for things.
Now that totally tracks, longer a user is on the more engagement and more ads user sees. Disgusting
Fat Electrician did a video about CL thats pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0wK_yXf7wo
Facebook spontaneously banned me from their marketplace some years ago. I have never used it. Don’t think I’ve even checked it out.
They must be taking their cues from reddit. At least you weren't using it so no loss.
Only reason I still have a Facebook account is because the rescue my dog came from has a group there. I check in a couple of times per year. There’s nothing else of value on that platform for me.
I got a few of my favorite things for free off of craigslist. I dislike that their app is not on F-Droid
there's a cost to anonymity, and one of them is people like to check buyers profiles to see if they are rmeotely serious buyers or not.
user to user selling sites are already packed with low ballers, bots and fake accounts. some people would like to not even interact with them.
anonymity is also attracts fake listings more. not that fbm doesnt have them but its usually very obvious when a listing is fake, if not, the profile its attached to.
Man whatever happened to Craigslist?
I still use it, it's great. Unlike FBM, you can actually search for things and use filters and have saved searches that notify you when someone posts something that triggers a saved search. Facebook intentionally gimps their "find" functionality so you have to scroll through generic categories and look at a thousand things you don't want just to find the one thing you do. This is because it keeps you on their site - everything about Facebook is such a fucking turd sandwich.
Craigslist's problem is they just don't do anything but exist as near as I can tell. They don't update their UI (which I actually appreciate). They allow people to post the same listing every fucking day which is super annoying. They do nearly nothing to deal with scammers and bad user behavior (like storefronts claiming to be individuals) and rather than deal with that, people just left because Facebook might suck but most of the people on it who might contact you are at least verifiable.
So Craigslist is kind of threadbare, but there's still a good bit of stuff on it. If you do saved searches that trigger emails and you're patient, you can often get what you want (although I frequently update saved searches to exclude the idiot savants reposting every day).
I feel like it's becoming a bit more popular again now that OfferUp and all their ilk have, believe it or not, shit the bed even worse.
Craigslist is still fully operational and functional, and the only thing that has changed about it is that it doesn't have a personals site anymore.
It's not popular where I am (Scotland). There's nothing for sale in my area at all, except ads for clearly spammy things like spiritual services and some guy who wants people's underwear.
FOSTA-SESTA. Craigslist shut down the personals section in 2018 and thus effectively killed the majority of traffic to their website.
Plenty of good deals on craigslist/OfferUp in my experience, and sellers are much less flakey. I tried fb marketplace a while ago after hearing repeatedly how it was so much better and I was not impressed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58801814
Plenty of people can't book medical appointments, access government services, or buy things without it.
And individuals there can't avoid it until their country's whole culture changes.
The whatssapp merger coming through is one of the biggest thefts in history
WhatsApp, Messenger and Marketplace are big ones. It's already hard enough to get family and friends to message you elsewhere, good luck convincing strangers to buy/sell stuff elsewhere.
Craigslist in the USA and Kijiji in Canada are pretty popular.
About half a billion boomers
So realistically just wait a little longer and that number will rapidly approach zero
And pictures of what people are eating... hard pass.