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Comment by lordnacho | Hacker News Reader

Still waiting for one that blocks FB ads. I gather Meta spends a lot of effort to make it hard though, contrary to most sites I've come across. Makes sense given their business model, I don't doubt that.

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FBPurity (.com) seems to spend most of its time on that case. Works pretty well for months at a time, then FB changes something, and a new FBP update comes through a few days later.

I just block the entire facebook domain on NextDNS :-)

Yandex is one company that's known to put effort into resisting ad blockers—to the point that uBlock/AdBlock filter authors had to just give up. So it's certainly possible for FB.

This filter seems to work for me, but it'll probably break soon.

    ##:xpath(//div[@role="feed"]//div[.//a[@aria-label="Sponsored"]])

If you inspect the markup of Facebook ads you’ll see it’s beyond insane.

Yeah. That little block of text that says "Sponsored" alone is 4,224 characters of nonsense. https://pastebin.com/DZdNkiw2

That's insane!

The insane but logical outcome of the arms race between advertisers and adblockers.

I tried to scrape a private Facebook group once and came away with the same takeaway about that markup. They junkify everything so aggressively that it might actually be easier to render the page in a headless browser and "scrape" it with OCR.

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