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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by scarface74 on Monday September 03, 2018 @06:08PM (#17905194)
The majority of users are using FB on mobile and the FB app is one of the most popular. Ad Blockers that most people are using on mobile - either via the built in content blocking framework on iOS or by using another browser on Android, don’t work on FB.

FB uses “native ads” and “boosted content” that are indistinguishable from regular posts.

Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by bscphil on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:08PM (#17905453)
Even on desktop FB's ads are unblocked (or were when I used to have a FB account). They use a significant amount of obfuscation to make it impossible to use typical adblock techniques (url filter, css selectors, simple heuristics) without breaking the rest of the site. So far as I can tell most of the filter maintainers leave Facebook's native ads alone.
Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by earenndil on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:40PM (#17906030)
I read a while back about a research project to implement adblocking with computer vision. Wonder if that might be able to do it...