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Re:Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remov... by selmnoo on Sunday October 06, 2013 @01:28PM (#6504687)
I see that you are the creator of the Social Fixer extension.

Your writing mentions this interesting piece: http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-end-of-the-power-u...

I am just waiting for a more powerful entity like Google or Facebook to take on Ad-block, that's when it'll get really interesting. I'm guessing Facebook is just testing the waters for now by taking you on, and demanding you to take down ad-blocking features for now.

edit: I just read in your article:

    I asked about both of these cases, as examples, and I 
    was told by the person at Facebook that she was not 
    aware of these apps or Pages, but would check into them.
They don't know about Ad-block! That is just so rich.
Re:Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remov... by criley2 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:37PM (#6504946)
>I am just waiting for a more powerful entity like Google or Facebook to take on Ad-block, that's when it'll get really interesting.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

Tl;dr: Google pays Adblock Plus to mark Google ads "acceptable". Google ads are whitelisted from adblocking.

Re:Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remov... by RexRollman on Sunday October 06, 2013 @03:46PM (#6505190)
I don't use Adblock (I am a NoScript man) but I never knew that! Thanks for the info.