Facebook messenger ads

[Fannste94]

Facebook messenger still shows ads

[elburg]

Quoting from a reply in a different topic:

Not really… They are elements placed in by the app’s code.

Source: Ads in Google Search and Playstore - #2 by elburg

[Fannste94]

It’s still an ad, it says so

[PrintableCharacter]

If you see Facebook ads, activate the host list ‘Social hosts file’ via ad blocking / host lists. Please note that doing so will block other social sites (like LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit) as well as the services of Facebook.

If you want to block only Facebook ads, download the ‘Social hosts file’ to your PC or laptop.
Open it and search for all the Facebook related hosts. Generate a file from them, following the format of the list you opened.

[Fannste94]

Ok but is there maybe a way that you can add a certificate for HTTPS ad blocking in Blokada? I used an app called AdClear which had that certificate and there were no ads like this but the problem is that it had connection issues, And Viber also has these ads between chats in the list now and Blokada can block them

[balboah]

Here’s a few reasons why we decided not to go that route:

HTTPS Filtering

This article is brought to you by Tom Maddox. HTTPS Filtering: Sure, It Sounds Like a Good Idea Stop me if you’ve heard this one: you install an ad blocker (e.g. Blokada), but you still see those pesky sponsored links on Facebook, so you submit a feature request to the Blokada development team asking to the links to be blocked. It sounds like a simple enough request–just add a filtering rule to block those specific referrals. Unfortunately, the very mechanism designed to make Web surfing saf…

I know messenger is really popular. But I’d still suggest to try to move some of your friends to Signal instead.
There’s no ads, no logging of what you guys talk about, no “evil corp” behind it

[Fannste94]

Yeah I don’t really like Facebook too they also ruined Instagram it’s really buggy now, I tried the lite version of Messenger and it doesn’t have ads