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
Got to pick your battles. Facebook is a trash website that literally Pays nazis to make posts. I say the nazis can just deal with their ad riddled cesspool.
And despite that I still have to go there to find out when a particular business is open, or keep track of upcoming shows for the local wrestling promotion we watch, or if I want to buy or sell anything second hand in my local area because everyone here uses marketplace.
I can hate Facebook all I want, but enough people use it for things that I need that I'm ultimately forced to engage with it at times. I can avoid it as much as possible, but I can't avoid it completely.
Fuck em, call them on the phone, tell them facebook banned you because someone with the same name called you an impostor so you have no choice.
It would be nice if this worked, but the reality on the ground is that a significant portion of local businesses, events, and social groups exist only on Facebook and if you don't want to be on Facebook your option is to not participate or work with significantly incomplete or out of date information.
Because of this, numbers aren't published, flyers are not distributed widely if at all, and unless you know someone on the inside who relays information to you you will miss lots.
Yep, be the change you want to see in the world