uBlock Origin maintainers have decided to stop continuously updating filters specifically to keep up with Facebook’s latest ad-blocking countermeasures.

Existing filters will remain, but new Facebook techniques may eventually bypass them. The decision highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between ad blockers and advertising platforms.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html

  • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
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    il y a 2 mois

    Running an LLM or other AI as a classifier could work to make an ad blocker. You just need to render the page in a sandbox and all elements flagged as ads doesn’t get rendered in the real browser tab. It could even fix broken layouts from it. Just look at the absolutely tiny tool-call oriented models that can run in a Raspberry Pi which could be reused.

    In the end you could turn it into the reverse captcha - ads that the bot can’t block will be illegible to humans and thus worthless to advertisers