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
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.