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.
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Reminder that Facebook hates you and pays people to develop ways to manipulate and control your behavior. Request to download your account data, delete your account, and go outside. It’s less scary than you’re making it and you’ll feel better in the end.
This will not end well. YouTube is very difficult to replace while Facebook has plenty of competitors.
Oh no! Anyway…
Oh no! I’ll have to keep on not using Facebook.
Everyone should be using the Facebook addon “Facebook Purity” if they are still using the platform. I’ve been using it for over a decade and I can’t stand using Facebook without it…
They are always a few steps ahead of Facebook and work well with other blockers.
Not only that, you can block specific parts of Facebook, not just the adverts. You can block the shorts, people you know, groups, keywords, and even whole topics.
You can change settings, like how you see your feed and it will stay changed.
Changing the font size, type, spacing in addition a bunch of color and night mode options are just icing on the cake.
In my professional opinion, it’s the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one’s sanity.
Anything that blocks wordle posts would be welcome
People still do Wordle? I thought that was a trend that blew up and died a while ago.
God I wish that was the case
I love how both Meta and YT will Barbara Streisand Ad Blockers into the spotlight. Most people do not use ad blockers and all these News will make them more aware of it.
How many of yall are still using facebook? Be honest.
I log in once a week since I’m in a few useful groups, but haven’t posted in a solid decade.
I have a fake profile with my real name on there just to troll around my extended family as they use it. Even that is insufferable for me.
it’s more like I have it and sometimes visit to see if something happened
Only when searching for cars on Marketplace, as there isn’t any other site or platforms with the amount of listings that fb has
I thought they discontinued selling cars there?
Certainly not where I live, not sure in the US
I looked it up. They discontinued allowing businesses to post vehicles on Facebook Marketplace.
Ah, yeah that makes sense
I stopped in 2015. For all I care, load it to the rim with ads. Hopefully, more people will come off it because of it.
I use it for marketplace though it’s not my favourite. More tire-kickers and scammers on FB than craigslist.
I think my friends who use social media still use messenger for group chats.
So all my “friends” are actually ads?
Guess I don’t need to use Facebook
I’ve never had an issue with any of the changes Facebook has made over the past 5 years.
That’s because I haven’t used facebook at all.
Uh yeah, I paid for YouTube Premium, I purged my accounts on Facebook, they are not the same. It does make me happy when platforms that abuse their privilege like Facebook begin doing things that will bring them closer to their end.
I actually got a notice like this several months ago even before YouTube did theirs.
If anything, Facebook’s quite infamous for trying to combat and blockers in general. I remember back then when they obfuscated their web layout so much that it got tricky for some to filter or block sponsored or recommended content.
Great. Can’t wait for this update to reach mobile devices. More people need to realize how scammy these tech mega-corps are.
Oh wow, big tech single-handedly curing my internet addiction! Love it!
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I don’t care for Facebook one bit… but it’s alarming to see ANOTHER platform trying to block adblockers. First YouTube, then APKMirror, and now Facebook. Great… can’t wait to enter the adblocker blocking web era. Fucking Google, always making shit worse.
Anti adblockers have always been a thing. Every month or so in the past five or six years I’ve come across a site that demands that I deactivate my adblocker, to which I’ve said “lol no” and moved on.
Yeah it amuses me that someone somewhere must be like ‘gosh they are blocking our ads’ when in reality if they shame me for blocking their egregious ads I usually just go to a different site rather than update my filters.
I have started seeing anti adblockers banners since last year or two way before YouTube started blocking adblockers.
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