uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads

Submitted Nov 9, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC. This is a public Hacker News submission, not reporting by HackerHub.

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1. markx2 · Nov 9, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

   Facebook won the war. https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-bloc...

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2. _nobody · Nov 9, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

   If you export your Facebook account, it lists all the advertisers who accessed your data. They range from Chinese, russians, Europeans, africans, and god knows who. It doesn’t matter if you stopped using Facebook or its product, the export data has lots of information about your online profile. And this is just the data which they choose to reveal.

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3. LopovJack · Nov 10, 2026, 9:16 AM UTC

   They can but decide not to as far as I know. Juice is no worth the squeeze.

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4. bikvfeee · Nov 10, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

   I think if you go on Facebook you deserve the ads.

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