I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

  • @[email protected]OP
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    181 year ago

    but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don’t get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn’t seeing the ads?

    • @elliot_crane
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      151 year ago

      The ads still appear in the facebook feed but clicking them results in a “this site could not be found” or similar error, is how I understood it to work. I know the PiHole basically makes it so the routes from “whateveradwebsite.com” end up not resolving to an IP address. I’m not sure how FB is serving them; so the text/image content might be coming from an FB server and the link is just an ad URL with a bunch of tracking info on it.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        121 year ago

        yeah you’re right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn’t think of that