The Daily Dose

It’s been a busy week for ad-blockers. After Facebook essentially declared war on extensions like Adblock and Ublock last week, the former reported today that they’ve already figured out a fix that would thwart social media sites from showing users ads. But only after throwing a rather hypocritical hissy fit in a blog post. Today’s announcement detailed a crowdsourced fix by the open-source community behind the EasyList filtering mechanism — a filtering tool used by multiple ad blockers. Not many details are available pertaining to the “how” but it seems that the community zeroed in on Facebook’s new way of displaying…

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