Facebook ads on Android tablet

[Ben Alder]

Can anyone advise how to stop FB flooding my tablet feed with almost continual adverts please. I don't get any on my phone or desktop at all - desktop works on Firefox, set to strict, and I have adblockers installed, which presumably sorts that  but phone is as it came. I have tried adding adblockers to the tablet but it doesn't have much effect - I  have tried a compromise setting, allowing beer and book ads to stay and for a while this ticks along OK but periodically there is two or three days of ads every third post or so. Block them all and it goes away for a week or two but this last month or so they have been almost constant, making FB very annoying. The tablet is my main viewing device and I am getting somewhat frustrated with it all.

[MJI]

Install Ublock Origin on Firefox, also check for other Firefox addons for Facebook, test them on your PC build before installing on phone.

[Quarryscapes]

Use brave browser on tablet and view facebook through that rather than the app. Same goes for youtube. Goodbye ads.

[ejstubbs]

I find DNS66 (available from F-droid) is pretty good at blocking ads on Android devices.  It's what I use, anyway, rather than adblocking browsers, which IME mean that ads still get through in apps.  Better still, it's not detected as an adblocker so you don't get whiny "please disable your adblocker" pop-ups either.

[Ben Alder]

Thanks all. I've now several viewing options so we'll see how it all goes.

 

[spikey]

Brilliant listing of two items for sale on a local group on Facebook this afternoon - "Chester draws also player for final records."

[melmerby]

2 minutes ago, spikey said:

 "Chester draws"

Maybe they think they are related to Windsor Chairs?

 

It's actually amazing how often you see that on advertising cards, items for sale etc. Shows how good our education system is

It does bug me a bit that they can't get it at least half right......

[melmerby]

On 06/02/2022 at 14:22, Ben Alder said:

Can anyone advise how to stop FB flooding my tablet feed with almost continual adverts please.

As others have said.

I use Firefox and Adblockplus (?)- no ads

 

Watch out for apps that might not work properly unless certain things are enabled, which then let in ads.

I dumped an office suite because it started inserting ads into the program as you used it (It didn't initially)

 

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, spikey said:

Brilliant listing of two items for sale on a local group on Facebook this afternoon - "Chester draws also player for final records."

It took me a while but I finally got it : "Chest of drawers and player for vinyl records."

[Lurch]

20 hours ago, melmerby said:

Watch out for apps that might not work properly unless certain things are enabled, which then let in ads.

I dumped an office suite because it started inserting ads into the program as you used it (It didn't initially)

 

That's pretty much exactly what AdBlockPlus started doing several years ago. They won't block their partners ads which effectively means it is worthless. Use Ublock Origin instead.

[melmerby]

On 26/02/2022 at 18:27, J. S. Bach said:

It took me a while but I finally got it : "Chest of drawers and player for vinyl records."

Damn predictive text......

[J. S. Bach]

42 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Damn predictive text......

BTW, I live in Chester, that made it a little more "Huh?"