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by dvfjsdhgfv 956 days ago
Does anyone know of a fix for "Suggested for you" pages in FB feed? I used a very clean feed with just posts from my friends and all ads blocked but for some reason none of the lists used by uBlock Origin is able to block the new code for "Suggested for you". Any ideas?

EDIT: This is also a call for you, ex-Facebook engineers who once wanted to make the world a better place. You can help now to deobfuscate this code and make this trash disappear.
3 comments
rightbyte 956 days ago
Seems like a waste of effort. Enjoy the adds so that you don't forget it is spyware.

Making the use of malicious platforms better for devs is counter productive to the obvious goal of not having our friends and family use it at all, so we don't have to either.

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mmsc 956 days ago
FB Purity is a dedicated extension for that: https://www.fbpurity.com/
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dvfjsdhgfv 956 days ago
They specifically say about that (on FB...)[0]:

"I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Facebook seem to have rolled out new Sponsored Post code which is currently evading FBP's filters. The good news is I'm looking into fixing it. Please be patient while I work on a fix"

So I wonder whether someone managed to come up with a solution.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gg2Y-F...

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throw_pm23 956 days ago
I know of a fix, but you will not like it.
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tremon 956 days ago
Thanks for the help, Marvin.
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