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Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by Crazyontap on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:06PM (#30644553)
> There is no way you can hide ads and sponsored posts on Facebook

Why is that? How come it's possible to block tweets but not FB posts? Is FB using some vastly different technology than Twitter/Reddit/etc that makes it impossible? If so then what's stopping Twitter/Reddit from doing the same?

Anybody who knows about adblocking care to explain this?

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Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by TheBozzCL on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:19PM (#30644723)
I'm guessing it's because Facebook goes to hilarious lengths to obfuscate their ads: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367
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