I don’t need anyone to tell me that Facebook sucks because I already know that, and I would never use it unless in my country, for reasons unknown to me, public and private institutions use Facebook as a primary method of sharing news, such as schedules or promotions.
I don’t have the slightest intention of creating a Facebook account, but as I said, I need to see posts from certain Facebook accounts and every time I go to a Facebook page and scroll for 2 seconds I get a pop-up forcing me to create an account. And as far as I know, there is no sort of Piped front-end for Facebook, I would appreciate any help.
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We need to start letting people and organisations know that this isn’t acceptable. I’ve been guilty of just using an anonymous account or letting it slide but having a mailing list is not much effort for example, honestly having a basic website is pretty cheap and easy.
I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.
Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn’t want to be shown to other people as a potential “friend”.
I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.
I can skip over any business that only has a Facebook page. Plenty of choices out there…
What I can’t skip is when a political candidate is only on Facebook. I can’t count the number of times I was trying to research candidates for local election and found they only had their policies on a locked Facebook page. Infuriating doesn’t describe it.
did you hear the latest from proton ceo? ugh
Yeah, disappointing.
You might be able to use the element zapper in uBlock Origin to remove the popup and overlay.
I have tried, the pop-up is indeed removed but the background remains gray and you can’t scroll, there is like an invisible gray wall that can’t be removed, and I have tried to activate the annoyance filters without any success.
sometimes the element picker can do a better job than the zapper
I recommend: don’t
Large portion of the Internet is hidden inside FB pages :/
A large portion of humanity’s poop is hidden in sewers, and about as good for you as FB
poop too, a truly unimaginable amount, but OP was talking about public and private institutions. pretty sure quite a few schools do it like this
Same question, but Instagram.
Sucks that a bunch of businesses think an Instagram account is an acceptable substitute for a website.
I use this https://www.save-free.com/
Thanks. Looks like I want their related tool https://www.free-viewer.app/
Tracking
Proxigram
Is there any public instance that’s not blocked?