Adblock Plus has already found a way to trick Facebook's ad blocking defenses
 

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, 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. *

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"Well, that was fast," Adblock Plus spokesman Ben Williams said in a blog post 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...

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