I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
So all my “friends” are actually ads?
Guess I don’t need to use Facebook
I’ve never had an issue with any of the changes Facebook has made over the past 5 years.
That’s because I haven’t used facebook at all.
bye fb
Best decision I ever made. Weeks later I realized how much better life was without that trash. Totally impacted by demeanor
Better late than never
I don’t think any other site can do what YouTube is doing, because YouTube is almost impossible to replace and find an alternative to. If Facebook pulls this I’m out for good. The only reason I’m on there still is the 3 people who refuse to use anything else that I still care about.
So you use a data miner because other people do, but if they block ads you won’t? Which one is it?
I don’t even get the question. Yeah I use Facebook with a fake name and no data on the account accept a spam mail address to write occasional messages with 3 people. If I couldn’t use ad block on facebook it’d be too annoying to use for me even for that.
I did that and facebook banned me for being a bot
If you create a new account probably. My account is many years old but with little activity. Maybe it doesn’t get bit scanned anymore.
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It’s family so I guess I’m shit out of luck here. Everyone else I managed to get to communicate through signal or at least email. But those 3 are a bit special.
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Everyone should be using the Facebook addon “Facebook Purity” if they are still using the platform. I’ve been using it for over a decade and I can’t stand using Facebook without it…
They are always a few steps ahead of Facebook and work well with other blockers.
Not only that, you can block specific parts of Facebook, not just the adverts. You can block the shorts, people you know, groups, keywords, and even whole topics.
You can change settings, like how you see your feed and it will stay changed.
Changing the font size, type, spacing in addition a bunch of color and night mode options are just icing on the cake.
In my professional opinion, it’s the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one’s sanity.
Anything that blocks wordle posts would be welcome
People still do Wordle? I thought that was a trend that blew up and died a while ago.
God I wish that was the case
It’s like all these tech companies wait to deploy this stuff at the same time.
As soon as one has the audacity to deploy anti-consumer bullshit and the others see there’s no measurable fallback, they all rush to roll out the same shit.
Exactly. They sat back and waited. They all want to do it. Ads are cancer to just about everything. Cable, internet, streaming, etc. it ruins the user experience.
It would be funny if the ad blocking community just ignored this, and focused on removing FB tracking on external sites.
That’s what I’m using the ghostery browser addon for. They are pretty effective with external tracker removals.
Oh no, I have to stop using Facebook too? Holy shit I might get something done
You guys should implement that shit here on Lemmy too
I left reddit for like two weeks before joining lemmy.
I felt like I wasn’t so attached to my phone anymore.
Then I downloaded Sync for lemmy knowing full well that I’d end up addicted again… The internet is the hardest habit to break.
Helps that Lemmy has orders of magnitude less content. After the third time refreshing with no new content, it gets much easier to put the phone down.
It’s pretty good though 😃😁
1% good stuff, 99% delicious horseshit
How does one block a post from a friend with an ad-blocker? Do some of your friends type like shills? Is Facebook making numbers up for fun?
Since user posts aren’t ads, yes! But wouldn’t be surprised if on their end what appears to be normal user posts (and are) are served through the ad system, so that it actually works that way.
I saw sometimes ads that was claiming that one of my friends like that product too. My bet is on that.
BTW: I stayed using user script to remove recommendations, suggestions and other crap like that. It makes Facebook so much more bearable but interestingly also feels less addictive.
What is User Script please? I have to use Facebook, and all the crap is frying what’s left of my brain.
It’s probably made-up garbage. If they knew my ad-blocker had actually blocked a friend, I’m sure they would have found a way not to get anything blocked.
Or alternatively they are now displaying some friend’s posts on the same channel normally reserved for ad networks so they are indistinguishable via software? But then it should be way more than one, unless this is some early A/B testing crap.
Sounds they detect adblock and then hide friends posts.
They probably are detecting your ad blocker, and choosing to block random posts as a strange kind of disciplinary behavior.
This is it. This is how these companies think.
I’d still take half content without ads over full content with ads. Not like I know what I’m not seeing so can’t I really miss it?
Can anyone please get my country off Facebook and Messenger? Please?
What “your country” does is irrelevant. Using Facebook or not is your choice, not others.
I don’t have a choice. If everybody uses Facebook Messenger for communication, then I need to use Facebook Messenger. Not using Facebook Messenger at all in that case is cutting everybody out of my life. I’m not willing to do that.
Use Beeper then, at least you won’t have to use Facebook’s app
True, but good luck getting an acct.
I have one and would be happy to share my referral code to anyone who sends me a DM
Its just a matter of getting a invite code from someone whose already in the door. There is basically lots of people who generate it for others. Id do it if I was at home.
No, it’s not. Is your claim that if you sent an SMS they wouldnt receive it? If you called them would their phone not ring? It’s 100% a choice, your making. Make it if you like, just don’t kid yourself.
5-10 years ago when FB was still popular EVERYBODY I knew used it, including messenger. I never did, I haven’t lost contact with a single person who was actually my friend. Again, there’s a difference between actual friends and FB friends.
Your situation is different from mine. Facebook might not be popular in your country anymore but it’s the largest social media platform in mine. Young people don’t use SMS for communication in my country anymore. The majority has switched to Facebook Messenger now. SMS is only for carrier messages and verification codes. Even if I did get like one or two friends to use SMS again (unlimited SMS not included in phone plans by the way), how do you propose I solve the problem of Messenger group chats? I need them for family, for friends, for college and for work. How do you propose I solve that?
Youve missed the point, it WAS that popular here, that changed nothing. If I sent an SMS , they got it. If YOU send an SMS, they’ll get it.
You can do whatever you like, but you’re intermixing want vs need. So you can either CHOSE to send an SMS or you don’t. But you don’t NEED to. May be more convenient, but you need to decide whether to make like arguably easier, or maintain slightly more privacy. That’s your choice, but don’t kid yourself that it’s not a choice you have.
I used to be nice to use privacy invading convenient things, it was great to tell my phone to remind me of things when I left work etc. but my privacy is more important than that convenience. Using a known abusive data minor as main method of communication is about as bad as it gets for me, at that point, all my privacy efforts are a waste.
I don’t spit in the face of my own privacy to appease others, if you chose to, that’s fine. Just own it.
It’s fucking absurd that it’s 2023 and SMS still costs money on mobile plans that also have internet.
SMS messages take less than 150 bytes of data. It’s hard to even explain how little data that is compared to everything your phone does that is IP based. With ATM and Ethernet, just the TCP and IP frame overhead is over 50 bytes, and TCP requires 3 packets just to start a socket, so you can literally send a max length SMS message in about the same data as the TCP overhead of an idle connection. Yet they charge people per message. If you were charged for every TCP socket setup your phone made you’d go bankrupt*.
*not really, that was figurative hyperbole.
Here people use WhatsApp, not Facebook messenger, but the idea is the same. I left WhatsApp last year. My dearest friends and family have installed Signal after I did. They haven’t left WhatsApp but they use it to contact me. We have group chats on Signal. If colleagues need to reach me I tell them they can sent me an SMS or join Signal. They mostly just send SMS. I used to be in a group chats from my 2 jobs. Luckily I don’t necessarily need to be in either of them, it’s mostly used for trading shifts and there are other ways to do that. Important communication goes through email.
When one method of communication is the norm it is obviously very difficult to move away from it, and for some people it will feel almost impossible. We shouldn’t deny that there is a choice, because there is, but obviously for some it will be a lot easier than for others. I was in the lucky position that it felt possible, and it worked out great. I am very relieved that I am part of fewer group chats now. They’re quite a burden actually. I hope in the future when things shift a little further from the current norm, it will be possible for you as well.
face what?
Sir, this is Lemmy
Other than YouTube, I’m basically off all of these centralized social media platforms and it feels great.
I do need to occasionally use Facebook for market place and messenger for contacting business.
Basically every business operates over messenger where I live.
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Not really, I am in a third would country and if you call the landline, you still have to pay by the minute. Most businesses do not even have a landline to contact. Typically they give a viber number or messenger number.
Even when I needed to get a rabies shot, my wife found a place on facebook. They did not even have a website of their own. Sadly that is how the internet works where I live.
I’m trying to encourage people to move to peertube. Not much content there, but i’ll reward what intersting content I find. You should too
Yeah, also please, make some content.
Doesn’t matter that it stinks, we wont watch it till you get better anyway.
I’ve been trying to switch over but haven’t found a good iOS app yet. Know of any?
What is wrong with safari?
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There’s just nothing there besides tech content
Someone on here linked to odysee.com which appears to be a better version of YouTube so far, even Louis Rossman is there talking about YT’s new adblock situation as one example: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/youtube’s-adblock-war-is-backfiring-in:c
Yes same for me, whatsapp is pretty much the only “genuine” communication channel. I only keep a presence on facebook since I have to move countries frequently for work, and the “expats in $city” groups are quite helpful to find people, and then move the discussions off-platform :-)
It’s YouTube (piped when I can but the servers seem to be down) and old.reddit.com for me.
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Which ad blocker do you use that prompted this? I use unlock origin and response policy zones and I haven’t seen this yet.
Ublock Origin and Ghostery (more for tracker blocking than ads, but it does both).
pretty bold of them.
at least youtube actually offers a valuable service in return.
Sorry, you don’t appreciate getting the highlight reel of everyone else’s life to make yourself feel inferior?
Actually I do, it actually makes me feel superior for not being dumb enough to project that shit out into the ether 😂
