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08-11-2016, 11:40 PM
Adblock Plus has already found a way to trick Facebook's ad blocking defenses
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Just days after Facebook declared war on ad blockers (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/facebook-bypass-ad-blockers/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Adblock Plus claims to have found a way through the social network's defenses.
The widely-used service has added a new filter that can purportedly identify and shut out ads on the site despite Facebook's efforts to make doing so much more difficult. *
SEE ALSO: Facebook is **w bypassing ad blockers on desktop (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/facebook-bypass-ad-blockers/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
"Well, that was fast," Adblock Plus spokesman Ben Williams said in a blog post (https://adblockplus.org/blog/fb-reblock-ad-blocking-community-finds-workaround-to-facebook) an**uncing the update on Thursday.
But there may be a hitch; Facebook quickly fired back with its own statement claiming that the method Adblock Plus is using also hides certain ordinary posts along with the ads. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/facebook-adblock-plus-ads/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Just days after Facebook declared war on ad blockers (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/facebook-bypass-ad-blockers/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Adblock Plus claims to have found a way through the social network's defenses.
The widely-used service has added a new filter that can purportedly identify and shut out ads on the site despite Facebook's efforts to make doing so much more difficult. *
SEE ALSO: Facebook is **w bypassing ad blockers on desktop (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/facebook-bypass-ad-blockers/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
"Well, that was fast," Adblock Plus spokesman Ben Williams said in a blog post (https://adblockplus.org/blog/fb-reblock-ad-blocking-community-finds-workaround-to-facebook) an**uncing the update on Thursday.
But there may be a hitch; Facebook quickly fired back with its own statement claiming that the method Adblock Plus is using also hides certain ordinary posts along with the ads. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/facebook-adblock-plus-ads/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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