I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
reflex_aliens ( @reflex_aliens@lemmy.ml ) 100•8 months agoSeems like a feature to me.
Purple ( @purple@lemm.ee ) English45•8 months agoOh yeah aunt Greta, I’m still friends with you, but it’s so weird how I can’t see your anti vax “facts”
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English10•8 months agoThat’s the government censorship!
Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English13•8 months agoI took a peek at my feed for the first time in years. It’s all junk lol, no one I care about is posting anything
The only thing worth seeing is my local Buy Nothing group, but there are other services popping up which do something similar.
Yeah all my actual friends are messaging me elsewhere, facebook is more like a picture dump for old people. I only use it occasionally for joining various expat groups since I move countries frequently for my job, and they are rather resourceful.
It sure might be, but the one friend who got blocked is just casually posting stuff from his personal life, nothing spammy going on there. Either facebook is screwing with me, or they are playing out some friend’s posts in the ad-network stream so you are actually losing some genuine content. That would be evil (and totally something Meta would do), but I really couldn’t care less.
Sotuanduso ( @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ) English4•8 months agoI do think that sounds more like they’re hiding it and blaming adblock than pretending something was missed. Wouldn’t be surprised if it starts small and ramps up over time, but that’s just speculation.
CheshireSnake ( @CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English88•8 months agoYour ad blocker is blocking posts from friends
Thank fucking god
Ronnie ( @Ronnie@lemmy.ca ) 35•8 months agoMy Facebook is hardly even friends these days. It’s basically ads, suggested posts, and posts in groups. Maybe because none of my friends really post anymore, I dunno.
Staiden ( @Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•8 months agoYeah 1 out of 10 is a friend’s post. The rest is just garbage.
Tippon ( @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•8 months agoI’m at the stage where I check it once a day, maybe twice, for things like birthdays and anything important that my friends post. 90% of what’s there is suggested posts, ads, or reposted shit. ‘What type of gemstone suits you best? Tap here to find out!’
M500 ( @M500@lemmy.ml ) English50•8 months agoOther than YouTube, I’m basically off all of these centralized social media platforms and it feels great.
I do need to occasionally use Facebook for market place and messenger for contacting business.
Basically every business operates over messenger where I live.
Yes same for me, whatsapp is pretty much the only “genuine” communication channel. I only keep a presence on facebook since I have to move countries frequently for work, and the “expats in $city” groups are quite helpful to find people, and then move the discussions off-platform :-)
bluGill ( @bluGill@kbin.social ) 6•8 months agoI’m trying to encourage people to move to peertube. Not much content there, but i’ll reward what intersting content I find. You should too
pragmakist ( @pragmakist@kbin.social ) 4•8 months agoYeah, also please, make some content.
Doesn’t matter that it stinks, we wont watch it till you get better anyway.
CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org ) 48•8 months agoOk but who the fuck uses Facebook?
figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English16•8 months agoThere are a few countries where Facebook is still pretty popular. The Philippines, for example
YⓄ乙 ( @yoz@aussie.zone ) English16•8 months agoBoom boom boomers
red ( @red@lemm.ee ) 8•8 months agoAveryone who wants to have social life in my country
CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•8 months agoOh wow, im sorry for you.
ComradeR ( @ComradeR@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months agoIn Brazil, it is useful to contact people that you know in real life, family and friends…
Plus, it sorta works like a Craigslist here. People sell and buy things from Facebook everyday, and people advertise their business and services here (e.g: restaurants, plumbing services, gift stores, etc)
spudwart ( @spudwart@spudwart.com ) English31•8 months agoSo this is how it will start.
First it will be a back and forth war of Anti-adblockers vs Adblockers
Then when the Anti-Adblockers start to lose, which they will, then they’ll come crying to various governments with massic PAC campaigns among other insane garbage about how “Adblockers are Piracy!” and that they need to be banned.
This will not end well.
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 9•8 months agoThe thing is, if they get really stupid with it I could just go ahead and install pi hole. I haven’t already because it’s a bit of a fiddle on and I don’t apparently don’t need it yet. There’s no way for the government to mandate against that, unless they actually want to ban me from owning a computer, Which obviously won’t really work.
SkepticElliptic ( @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org ) 6•8 months agoPihole hasn’t worked with YouTube in almost a decade. They changed their ad service to their own domain, so there isn’t any way to distinguish between an ad and a regular video on the domain level that pihole uses.
phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 9•8 months agoIt’ll end well enough. People will just stop using their shitty platforms. They’ll start looking for alternatives, from which there are loads, find that there are platforms that don’t require ads, and go there.
Those that stay deserve the shit they get
SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English13•8 months agoYou’re massively overestimating the conviction of the average internet user. They’ll do whatever they’re told is cool to do, including visiting a site that is nothing but ads.
Yote.zip ( @yote_zip@pawb.social ) English26•8 months agoHow does one block a post from a friend with an ad-blocker? Do some of your friends type like shills? Is Facebook making numbers up for fun?
It’s probably made-up garbage. If they knew my ad-blocker had actually blocked a friend, I’m sure they would have found a way not to get anything blocked.
Or alternatively they are now displaying some friend’s posts on the same channel normally reserved for ad networks so they are indistinguishable via software? But then it should be way more than one, unless this is some early A/B testing crap.
far_university1990 ( @far_university1990@feddit.de ) 6•8 months agoSounds they detect adblock and then hide friends posts.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 26•8 months agoIt’s been for a long time but not overtly. (I’ve never used it, this is someone else’s screenshot)
Facebook splitting the word “Sponsored” to bypass adblockers – r/assholedesign SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English6•8 months agoThey also use all those uglified class names so you can’t easily target a class to block. They’re total bastards. The Facebook Purity plugin is hip to all these tricks though. There are some very dedicated and talented developers who have put in a lot of time and creativity to circumvent these assholes.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 4•8 months agoYes, just like Pinterest. It’s easier to find a direct image URL using Network Analysis than Inspector.
0xC4aE1e5 ( @0xC4aE1e5@lemmy.zip ) English1•8 months agoiirc Pinterest just uses a div with a background image. Could’ve been insta though
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 1•8 months agoIf I inspect the element in Firefox, it’s a
div
with about 8 layers of randomly named nesteddiv
s inside, sometimes branching (but the mouseover border preview tool helps). It takes 10 careful clicks to reveal the finaldiv
and its background image URL. Maybe there’s an “Expand all” button, IDK.
Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 24•8 months agoI’d rather have some false positives than a single unblocked ad.
Kodemystic ( @Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ) 19•8 months agoface what?
BeigeAgenda ( @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ) 18•8 months agoIt would be funny if the ad blocking community just ignored this, and focused on removing FB tracking on external sites.
That’s what I’m using the ghostery browser addon for. They are pretty effective with external tracker removals.
moitoi ( @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 18•8 months agoGreat for the internet! More people will install an adblocker (hopefully ublock origin).
Vardøgor ( @vardogor@mander.xyz ) 6•8 months agowhy would this lead to more adblocker installs? it’s a message about already having one
moitoi ( @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•8 months agoLike it backfired for YouTube, it will be the case for Facebook. People become aware of them through the news it generates.
- java ( @java@beehaw.org ) 4•8 months ago
How did it backfire for YouTube? According to this source, YouTube has over 2 billion monthly users. Let’s assume that a significant portion of this user base is around 10%, as a substantial loss in ad revenues would be necessary for this situation to backfire. That would amount to 200,000,000 users.
Do we have data confirming that ad-blockers gained approximately 200,000,000 new installations over the past month, or is there any other evidence to support this claim?
Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English2•8 months agoThe argument I heard is that all of the chatter about adblockers is causing normal people who don’t realize that adblockers exist to realize that they exist and try them out. I don’t know if there’s any evidence that this is actually happening, and I don’t know how much I can believe that argument at this stage
ToxicWaste ( @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ) 6•8 months agoWhile i like ublock and use it myself, i hope not everyone uses it! There need to be different adblockers. Same as just one browser, or one forum is vulnerable to different things, so would adblocks be.
moitoi ( @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•8 months agoI agree that it’s better to have multiple options. The issue with adblockers I often see is that they are adware themselves when not malware. With ublock origin, you can block contents of various types and not just ads. I prefer people having ublock origin than any bad option out there.
ByroTriz ( @ByroTriz@lemmy.ml ) 18•8 months agoGood. Facebook should just die.
milo128 ( @milo128@lemm.ee ) 18•8 months agothis is such an insidious way to stop people from using ad blockers. It’s not like facebook isn’t deliberately making sure these false positives happen.
orcrist ( @orcrist@lemm.ee ) 5•8 months agoThis is such an insidious way to stop people from using Facebook.
SteveDinn ( @SteveDinn@lemmy.ca ) 16•8 months agoFacebook can get fucked. They offer even less to me than YouTube.
Cranakis ( @Cranakis@lemmy.one ) 1•8 months agoYep. Who is still using FB? Not me.
Marin_Rider ( @Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ) 16•8 months agolol what… my feed is 80% ads, 15% group posts and maybe 5% friends
Gestrid ( @Gestrid@lemmy.ca ) English2•8 months agoThat’s why they’re blocking the friend posts! So they can give you more ads!