How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers

Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by JulianMorrison on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:06AM (#21691428)

Things I pragmatically need Facebook (including Messenger) for:

- My martial arts classes post updates there

- So does the community garden I help out at

- Keeping up with family news, and directly talking to family

- Keeping up with what's happening to my friends in the USA or other far flung places

- Access to topical news that matches my political beliefs rather than being heavily centrist-biased and ignoring all the important stuff

- Monitoring political campaigns and issue campaigns

And honestly, good luck finding all that anywhere else.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by ChrisRR on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:12AM (#21691697)

Create bookmarks directly to those pages and ignore the news feed.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by JulianMorrison on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:23AM (#21692020)

Missing the bit where I want the news feed.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by root_axis on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:39PM (#21696457)

That reads to me like "I like the Facebook service and so I use it". Of course if you want to use Facebook then quitting Facebook isn't practical.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by JulianMorrison on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:18PM (#21697955)

I'd like it better with less evil.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by root_axis on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:40PM (#21698140)

That's a universal platitude that could be applied to any profit-seeking company. At the end of the day you either regard Facebook as so abhorrent that you will refuse to use their services or not, but you definitely don't need to use them.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by JulianMorrison on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:13PM (#21698338)

And that's lazy deference to an inevitability that isn't inevitable. It's a cultural choice, to tolerate evil of that sort.

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Re:How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers by root_axis on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:06PM (#21699000)

I have made no defense. IMO, bargaining on the axis of moral flexibility to maintain the convenience of using a service you regard as evil is explicit "toleration" of said evil.

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