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Facebook to Make Ads Harder to Block

posted by n1 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the selling-everything dept.

DiarrhoeaChaChaCha writes:

Facebook is going to start forcing ads to appear for all users of its desktop website, even if they use ad-blocking software. The social network said on Tuesday that it will change the way advertising is loaded into its desktop website to make its ad units considerably more difficult for ad blockers to detect. “Facebook is ad-supported. Ads are a part of the Facebook experience; they’re not a tack on,” said Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, vice president of Facebook’s ads and business platform.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:01PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:01PM (#386277)

    For the best blocking, you should use Firefox because Firefox's API is stronger and Chrome/Chromium

    For the next couple releases anyway, before they flush the extension system down the toilet...

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