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
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.