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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Facebook gets more useless
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:10:08 -0000 (UTC)
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The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>> On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
>>>> I know - don't use it! But ...
>>>> 
>>>> Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
>>>> Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
>>>> needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
>>>> stuff in my feed.
>>>> 
>>>> Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
>>>> follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
>>>> to see painfull.
>>>> 
>>>> The more I see of facebook the less I like.
>>>> 
>>>> sorry for the rant
>>>
>>> No need. It sucks.  I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet 
>>> as I can, but it's miles away.
>>>
>>> If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension. 
>>> It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like 
>>> anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post.  You should already 
>>> be using adblock plus...
>> 
>> I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.
>
> They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some 
> of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and 
> effort.  What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And 
> what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use 
> adblocks :-(


Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?
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