Adblock Plus no longer working for Facebook's news feed ads

[Poopymonster]

Adblock isn't letting ads into my facebook crap except "sponsored" stuff, but

[Al Gorefiend]

people still use facebook?

weird.

anyway i noticed while using The something bay often when you click on a file for something it will often popup with another add window attached to your current tab in chrome, maybe ABP needs another update?

Old people, I guess.

[Snowmist]

Adblock isn't letting ads into my facebook crap except "sponsored" stuff, but

The Addon I linked on page 2 also stops sponsored posts, in case anyone wondered.

[Tyrianth]

uBlock > AdBlock

I'm not seeing any ads on facebook

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...jbkeiagm?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ublock-origin/

[Sakki]

Adblock isn't letting ads into my facebook crap except "sponsored" stuff, but

Too bad you cant add "sponsored" into adblock, it is shame that FB doesnt even check content they are advertising and have no problem with posting ads to fake bank sites and trying to get your bank informations,...

[Canpinter]

Really? WTF kinda shitty logic is that? Libertarian idiocy 101? That's the same thing as people refusing to see billboards or looking at ads in mags.

the difference is the people who own the billboard still get paid even if you don't look at the adds but with addblock the website dosn't get paid for the add

[Bollocks]

The downside is to the people who own the site. Ads pay for their work. Fair enough, I was fine with banners. But eventually sites were full with self-playing vids and pop ups that blare in your face without an obvious button to close them (sometimes the close button would actually take you to a separate site) so I said fuck you.

Inc. gamers used to have an option where you could donate a small sum over a period of time, get elevated (visible) forum status and surf ad free on all their sites.

I mean it has downsides for the owner but not for the consumer. For example piracy, when you pirate a game you risk yourself to malware and viruses. That's a downside. Adblock has no downsides and the consumer has no reason to turn it off.

[Barnabas]

If you update easylist you see no ads.

[solvexx]

I sincerely hope Facebook takes a huge hit. Let those stocks tank to demonstrably show what people really think about those ads.

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Really? WTF kinda shitty logic is that? Libertarian idiocy 101? That's the same thing as people refusing to see billboards or looking at ads in mags.

You're kidding right?

You paid for the magazine, the billboard is not giving you a free service in exchange for reading said ad.
Your ignorance disgusts me.

[Bollocks]

I sincerely hope Facebook takes a huge hit. Let those stocks tank to demonstrably show what people really think about those ads.

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Really? WTF kinda shitty logic is that? Libertarian idiocy 101? That's the same thing as people refusing to see billboards or looking at ads in mags.

This is not true. Billboards and magazines are still payed even if you don't look at the ads. Adblock denies that opportunity.

[Jtbrig7390]

Ive always seen the ads because Im not scumbag who tries to deny websites the money they need to stay in business by using ad blockers. People who do that are just as bad as pirates, bootleggers, and Nigerian Princes

When websites stop having add's that... Hurt performance,give virus's,are stupid fucken loud and so on. Then you will have a leg to stand on in your argument. Until then ill keep using adblock and websites can ether chose to allow those with it to view the site or don't.

[Tyrianth]

This is not true. Billboards and magazines are still payed even if you don't look at the ads. Adblock denies that opportunity.

Billboards and magazine ads aren't a security risk to my computer, nor do they consume limited resources (bandwidth), nor do they over distract from the content with flashing colours or autoplay sounds. If sites can guarantee that their adds do not pose a risk and they aren't over excessive then I'll gladly whitelist them. Reddit is one of the few sites that I will trust to show me ads.

[oxymoronic]

I use UBlock Origin, Ghostery and Facebook Purity

and yes with Ghostery I opt out of all the bs.

curious, what bs?

[unbound]

Because I use a tool it does not mean I want to be.
I want to be able to be able to support a site, but I find the medium of the advertisements to be detrimental to the experience.
And that stupid mentality against adblock is possibly going to move a lot of sites in completely the wrong direction, into subscriber models.

This is the right attitude. People need to get paid for their work. You can either pay directly, or watch commercials...or some combination of the two.

That said, one of the bigger problems is that many ads are still infected. In fact, as of a few years ago at least, you are more than a hundred times (162 if I remember correctly) more likely to get an infection from a web ad than from visiting porn sites. I have yet to see any of the advertising sites or the hosting sites that leverage advertising sites show even a tiny interest in fixing that rather huge problem. More than 60% of the exploits out today are via browser. An adblocker is an important part of defending yourself.

And I'll be more than happy to disable my adblocker when the advertising and hosting sites start acting responsibly and being actually accountable. You want my viewing dollar? Then actually be the honorable business model that you think you use.

[Shadowferal]

curious, what bs?

I'm pretty sure that ads = bs

At least it should be.

[Tyrianth]

This is the right attitude. People need to get paid for their work. You can either pay directly, or watch commercials...or some combination of the two.

That said, one of the bigger problems is that many ads are still infected. In fact, as of a few years ago at least, you are more than a hundred times (162 if I remember correctly) more likely to get an infection from a web ad than from visiting porn sites. I have yet to see any of the advertising sites or the hosting sites that leverage advertising sites show even a tiny interest in fixing that rather huge problem. More than 60% of the exploits out today are via browser. An adblocker is an important part of defending yourself.

And I'll be more than happy to disable my adblocker when the advertising and hosting sites start acting responsibly and being actually accountable. You want my viewing dollar? Then actually be the honorable business model that you think you use.

This is why reddit gets whitelisted for me. They are the only company, that I know of, that doesn't operate their ads through a third party. All ads get fetted by reddit employees. They also have strict criteria for ads that they accept (e.g., no flash or html5). If mmo-champion did that I would be more than happy to whitelist them.

[Canpinter]

Billboards and magazine ads aren't a security risk to my computer, nor do they consume limited resources (bandwidth), nor do they over distract from the content with flashing colours or autoplay sounds. If sites can guarantee that their adds do not pose a risk and they aren't over excessive then I'll gladly whitelist them. Reddit is one of the few sites that I will trust to show me ads.

that's a very different argument from the one that was being made ie using addblock is no different then not looking at billboard or magazine adds.

[Tyrianth]

that's a very different argument from the one that was being made ie using addblock is no different then not looking at billboard or magazine adds.

That's true, I quoted the wrong person.

[unbound]

This is why reddit gets whitelisted for me. They are the only company, that I know of, that doesn't operate their ads through a third party. All ads get fetted by reddit employees. They also have strict criteria for ads that they accept (e.g., no flash or html5). If mmo-champion did that I would be more than happy to whitelist them.

I would be the same. As it is, the log from my blocker is outright scary for this site. All kinds of remote sites involving javascripts (which makes it harder to see what type of ads they are trying to deploy as well as what information they are gathering). springserver, adtechus, pingdom, pubmatic, lijit, adnxs, contextweb, brealtime, openx, casalemedia, rubiconproject, crwdcntrol, viglink, casalemedia, jquery, ytimg, and doubleclick. And those are the sites above and beyond the standard stuff you would expect from mmo-champion, google, facebook, twitter, and curse.

You can't tell me with a straight face that MMO-Champion is doing due diligence in checking all of those sites initially, much less monitoring everything coming in from all of that.

[Bollocks]

This is why reddit gets whitelisted for me. They are the only company, that I know of, that doesn't operate their ads through a third party. All ads get fetted by reddit employees. They also have strict criteria for ads that they accept (e.g., no flash or html5). If mmo-champion did that I would be more than happy to whitelist them.

Yeah but reddit makes money from other sources and is still looking for other ways of making money. IIRC links to products would be replaced with reddit links.