Adblock Plus responds angrily to Facebook's plan to circumvent ad blockers

[Batu69]

Facebook's plans to show adverts to everyone regardless of whether they are using an ad blocker was always going to prove controversial. The decision to bypass the privacy and security tools that many people have put in place has riled one company in particular -- Adblock Plus.

 

Describing the social network's latest move as being 'all anti-user', Adblock Plus's Ben Williams says that it is an 'unfortunate move' that 'takes a dark path against user choice'. He goes on to pooh-pooh the idea that Facebook made the decision based on what users want.

 

He points out that Facebook recognises the fact that users have installed ad blocking tools for a reason -- and yet has decided to ride roughshod over these decisions anyway. The suggestion is that users should be left to deal with ads and other content as they see fit, as the majority of Facebookers have not been consulted by the company.

 

Ben says that the decision could well end up backfiring on both Facebook and advertisers:

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It's hard to imagine Facebook or the brands that are being advertised on its site getting any sort of value for their ad dollar here: publishers (like Facebook) alienate their audience and advertisers (the brands) allow their cherished brand name to be shoved down people’s throats. Yikes.

 

So is there anything good that could possibly come out of this? The view at Adblock Plus is that it will start even more of a discussion about ad bloc

king:

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If nothing else, all this attention from Facebook shows that ad blocking has finally made the big time. We’re ready for our close up...

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[DogDays]

Batu69,

 

As always Thank U for this timely Info.

     I personally don't use fa$ebook too much
stealing personal infomation and data mining.

 

My girlfriend likes to play some of there online
games. But with all the pop-ups and ads it got
out of hand. So I gathered the ad locations and
put them in the host file. This seems to have
worked out very well.

 

I hope this change won't effect the my host file.

 

 

[SandStone]

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[Batu69]

20 hours ago, DogDays said:

I personally don't use fa$ebook too much

 

Me. Never use this Zuckerberg stuff

 

14 hours ago, SandStone said:

always use adguard with https filtering.

 

One of the best

[SandStone]

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[SandStone]

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[davmil]

Adblock Plus.  Then load a FFox add-in called Facebook Purity for further blocking.  Spend 15 minutes covering up the BS and you'll have a much more usable and enjoyable Facebook experience.  FBP works well and is regularily maintained.

[worldsdream]

Adblockers will win, I only want to see how far Facebook will go with this.

[Akaneharuka]

On 2016/8/11 at 0:43 AM, DogDays said:

Batu69,

 

As always Thank U for this timely Info.

     I personally don't use fa$ebook too much
stealing personal infomation and data mining.

 

My girlfriend likes to play some of there online
games. But with all the pop-ups and ads it got
out of hand. So I gathered the ad locations and
put them in the host file. This seems to have
worked out very well.

 

I hope this change won't effect the my host file.

 

 

 

Hey can you tell me which http address I should put in the host file to block face book ad