I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The ads still appear in the facebook feed but clicking them results in a “this site could not be found” or similar error, is how I understood it to work. I know the PiHole basically makes it so the routes from “whateveradwebsite.com” end up not resolving to an IP address. I’m not sure how FB is serving them; so the text/image content might be coming from an FB server and the link is just an ad URL with a bunch of tracking info on it.

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      1 year ago

      yeah you’re right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn’t think of that