uBlock Origin maintainers have decided to stop continuously updating filters specifically to keep up with Facebook’s latest ad-blocking countermeasures.
Existing filters will remain, but new Facebook techniques may eventually bypass them. The decision highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between ad blockers and advertising platforms.
Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
I mean, there's a lot of companies that have Facebook tracking pixels on their page, so there's a shadow profile of people that are exposed to them Facebook holds, plus Facebook owns Instagram and I believe WhatsApp, which are some of the most widely used apps on the planet.
reddit is using tracking pixel (I believe w/ google) as I can't make an account w/o it getting insta banded on the machine I originally got banned on for a mistake.
As for IG/Whatsapp I never had any account for either so nothing lost their for me. And no FB so they aren't tracking me.
As for my reddit ban it was so stupid, I used RES and have accounts for general browsing and specialized hobbies of mine. Accidentally posted in an sub I was banned for no reason (remember the blanket bans?) on my hobby acct that wasn't banned.
Boom ban evasion, 4 account insta banned across board. I VPN and flip locations between accounts as thats how they used to track you. They got something new as I had accts I never posted on get banned. So its not text pattern recognition. Something on that machine is tattling on me to reddit.