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matt-kruse / SocialFixer

Social Fixer is a browser extension that enhances Facebook
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sponsored filter stopped working #27

Open revepastrop opened 2 years ago

revepastrop commented 2 years ago

v28 did great... till these last few days, now we're flooded again with sponsored ads... doubke checked in options, filters were still on, makes no difference anymore

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MarkBukowski commented 2 years ago

Any updates regarding this one?

CharliePoole commented 2 months ago

I just installed SocialFixer and ran into this immediately. I added a filter immediately after the provided "Hide Sponsored Posts" filter, specifying Link Url starts with "https://www.facebook.com/ads/about/" (simple text match) and that seems to have fixed the problem.

Of course, this will block a non-sponsored post that happens to link to the same page, but I can live with that for now.

CharliePoole commented 2 months ago

I spoke too soon. It appeared to work at first, most likely because I didn't scroll far enough. I just found the "Debug" context menu, so I'll experiment some more.

CharliePoole commented 2 months ago

Looks as if the built-in filter catches about half of the sponsored posts in my feed. My extra filter isn't doing anything. :-( Examining the source, it's clear that FB has done a log of work to obscure sponsored posts.