Adblock Plus Claims It Already Beat Facebook's Ad-Blocking Force Field
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Adblock Plus said on Thursday that its community had already found a workaround to the anti-ad-blocking tech that Facebook announced just Tuesday, though Facebook countered that the fix erases more than just ads.
Adblock Plus Claims It Beat Facebook's Ad-Block Force Field | Digital - AdAge[/url]
This was just an early counter-strike in what is likely to be a drawn-out contest between Facebook engineers and the pesky ad-blocking community. The fix that Adblock Plus disseminated also might prove to be lacking, because it could trap content that's not even ads, filtering out publishers and other organic posts, users might otherwise want to see.
Adblock Plus warned its users of that possibility: "You should be aware that this filter has not been heavily tested," the company wrote in its blog post, adding that if people find the software blocking more than it should to let them know.
Early tests showed the Adblock Plus software was working smoothly.
Adblock Plus Claims It Beat Facebook's Ad-Block Force Field | Digital - AdAge
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That didn't take long ....