Don't want the new Facebook ads? In a brilliant demonstration of the arms race between ad companies and content filtering software, uBlock Origin already blocked them. This occurred hours after being introduced by Facebook.
The commit was here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/773512c844ab0e92e0dbb1fd9c00291d1ae0ba38
And from PC World:
Thursday morning, Adblock Plus announced that a new filter for banning Facebook's ads has been added to the main EasyList filter list used by the extension. Here's how to force Adblock Plus's filter list to update if you want in on the adblocking action.
Update: Facebook already rolled out new code to break Adblock Plus's workaround, according to Techcrunch. And then Adblock Plus rolled out a new filter to block the new workaround. And then Facebook released another patch to break the new Adblock Plus filter. Whack-a-mole indeed.
But you might not rush to do so. Adblock Plus's blog post warns that the new filter hasn't been heavily tested and may block additional content. An initial response sent out by Facebook suggests it may indeed be doing so.
"We're disappointed that ad blocking companies are punishing people on Facebook as these new attempts don't just block ads but also posts from friends and Pages," a spokesperson told AdAge. "This isn't a good experience for people and we plan to address the issue. Ad blockers are a blunt instrument, which is why we've instead focused on building tools like ad preferences to put control in people's hands."
[...] If you see an ad in your Facebook News Feed, click the drop-down arrow on the top left of the ad, and then choose "Manage your ad preferences." There, you'll be able to see which topics Facebook thinks you're into, and advertises against. Deleting them all should eliminate hyper-targeted ads—though not all ads, and Facebook will repopulate the list over time. Blocking ads via ad blockers isn't possible in Facebook's mobile apps, only in-browser.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 15 2016, @09:29PM
Best thing about soylent? Not a single 3rd party script loaded, not even Google or content provider scripts . Probably the only site I visit that doesn't rely on 3rd party scripts.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 15 2016, @09:57PM
Full disclosure: We did have piWik for a time, but self-hosted it and announced it was running and it was going away. We don't currently log anything beyond a request and a URL to the site.
We've considered re-running piWik, or reconfiguring nginx to log more information to get a more interesting cross-section of the site but the "meh" factor is fairly high since we get general information on how much traffic is coming and going through Linode.
Still always moving
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 16 2016, @03:57PM
Baseline mediawiki and mediawiki as used on wikipedia are self-reliant. You probably visit there from time to time.