{"id":175681,"date":"2016-08-12T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175681"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T07:54:42","slug":"adblock-plus-versus-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175681-adblock-plus-versus-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Adblock Plus versus Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175377-facebook-to-bypass-ad-blockers.html\"><strong>Facebook recently made changes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0so it can show ads on its desktop site to people using ad blocking software.<\/p>\n<p>This means the company has found a way to bypass ad blockers \u2013 but how it achieved this is not known.<\/p>\n<p>It did not take the ad-blocking community long to figure the system out, finding a way to block ads on Facebook again.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adblockplus.org\/blog\/fb-reblock-ad-blocking-community-finds-workaround-to-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Adblock Plus added<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>a new filter to the main EasyList, which make advertisements disappear on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe filter lists that tell Adblock Plus what to block are the product of a global community of web citizens. This time that community seems to have gotten the better of even a giant like Facebook,\u201d said Adblock Plus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sort of back-and-forth battle between the open source ad-blocking community and circumventers has been going on since ad blocking was invented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adblock Plus warned that Facebook might \u201cre-circumvent\u201d at any time.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/11\/friendblock\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TechCrunch reported<\/strong><\/a> that Facebook is already rolling out a code update which will render the Adblock Plus workaround useless.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174916-facebook-fighting-clickbait.html\"><strong>Facebook fighting clickbait<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/173768-facebook-attracts-1-71-billion-monthly-users.html\"><strong>Facebook attracts 1.71 billion monthly users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/133774-facebooks-solar-powered-plane-that-beams-down-internet-connectivity.html\"><strong>Facebook\u2019s solar-powered plane that beams down Internet connectivity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adblock Plus has found a workaround to block ads on Facebook, but the social network has already hit back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,33156,161],"class_list":["post-175681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-adblock-plus","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175689,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681\/revisions\/175689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}