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uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
(digitalescapetools.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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Unintuitively, detecting the ads is not the hard part of making an ad blocker. The really hard part is removing the ad without the website detecting that you removed it. So even if you had a perfect lightweight model that can detect ads, you still have the hard part of making the ad go away.