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
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.