# Facebook messenger ads

**URL:** <https://community.blokada.org/t/facebook-messenger-ads/10785>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.blokada.org/t/facebook-messenger-ads/10785 "2021-02-19T14:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![balboah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.blokada.org/balboah/32/38_2.png) [@balboah](https://community.blokada.org/u/balboah)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 8:38am UTC](https://community.blokada.org/t/facebook-messenger-ads/10785/6 "2021-02-20T08:38:39Z")

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

> [@HTTPS Filtering](https://community.blokada.org/t/https-filtering/118):
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> 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 🕶

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