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Title: Ad blockers circumvent Facebook's unblockable ads
Post by: HCK on August 16, 2016, 04:05:14 pm
Ad blockers circumvent Facebook's unblockable ads

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<p>Let the whack-a-mole game begin. A mere two days after  Facebook blocked ad blocking software (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3105811/internet/facebook-makes-its-desktop-ads-inescapable-by-blocking-ad-blockers.html), the ad blockers have managed to block Facebook’s ad blocker-blocker.</p><p>Thursday morning, Adblock Plus (https://adblockplus.org/blog/fb-reblock-ad-blocking-community-finds-workaround-to-facebook) announced that a new filter for banning Facebook’s ads has been added to the main EasyList filter list used by the extension. Here’s how (https://adblockplus.org/faq_basics#update-filterlists) to force Adblock Plus’s filter list to update if you want in on the adblocking action.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3106423/software-social/ad-blockers-circumvent-facebooks-unblockable-ads.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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