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This is literally the internet nowadays without an adblock (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

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[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don't get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn't seeing the ads?

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

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