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
People will still use Facebook because of Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Pages of restaurants, festivals, celebrities or simply ~~stubborn~~ uneducated friends and family using Facebook
And that's why it's important to either:
Do you have suggestions for alternatives? Especially the event/scheduling part of Facebook remains the one killer app holding me there. Even as much as it sucks, it’s very effective in getting everyone aware of events and when they’re happening.
Everyone except the large portion of people who don’t use Facebook. There are literally hundreds of other event invitation websites.
That’s fine, but I don’t know of any that meet the requirements
What I see out there seems to fall into:
Meetup is close, and discord’s events system is kinda-sorta okay. Those are the best I know of and they’re still not good.
Only reason I'm still using FB is the marketplace. Nothing comes even close to it for my region.
yeah, the takeover from Kijiji makes me sad
That's very regional. Around here, people use eBay, Kleinanzeigen and Vinted and Facebook for restaurants never took off. They're all on Google maps and that's enough or they have their own website.
Marketplace is remarkably unenshittified. That's probably why it's been so dominant.
I know we've lost track of it given the years of monopoly, but connecting people to other people is a remarkably powerful and simple process. Craigslist took over just be taking classified ads and putting them online. The tech is absolutely trivial, the real challenge is getting everyone to use the same site. The issue is that you can get people to use the same site by advertising and blitzing, THEN you can use that network effect to fuck everyone over.
I think eventually, corporations will continue to enshittify everything until open source alternatives become viable and then ultimately dominant. We're already seeing this happen with Microsoft: companies and countries are realizing they can not have core services dependent on a profit-maximizing monopoly and are switching to opensource projects that they can control.