Too many sponsored Ads - Facebook Settings?

sanjivsai

Dear All, 
I was hoping that someone could help in regards to what the Facebook settings should be to help avoid being bombarded by sponsored ads or a blocker App for the iPhone (IOS 14.7.1).

Many Thanks in advance for your help.

Jenni_D

I suspect you can't - it's partly how FB monetises itself.

I agree, the huge number of sponsored ads is very annoying.

pamsdish

Try this, it works well, although F.B. do try to get round it.
https://www.fbpurity.com/

Farway

pamsdish said:

Try this, it works well, although F.B. do try to get round it.
https://www.fbpurity.com/

Only works on PCs, not mobile phones

Will FB Purity be made available for the IPhone or Android or any other mobile devices?

Its a possibility for the future, but it will be an awful lot of work, and developing / maintaining and supporting the desktop version of FBP is already a crazy amount of work, and currently have no plans for a mobile version to announce at this time.

tafelmoneysaver

It would take some technical skills, but you can add a Pi-Hole to your home network.

You'll still get ads when not connected to your home network, either Wi-Fi or VPN.

https://pi-hole.net/

Neil_Jones

Pi-Hole works with browsers and whatever else you feed through it.  Not sure if this applies to apps, though if they're just repackaged web browsers (I noticed the NHS app is just a repackaged web browser for example) they should in theory be filtered too.  Actual apps not sure, they may be baked in.

tafelmoneysaver

Neil_Jones said:

Pi-Hole works with browsers and whatever else you feed through it.  Not sure if this applies to apps, though if they're just repackaged web browsers (I noticed the NHS app is just a repackaged web browser for example) they should in theory be filtered too.  Actual apps not sure, they may be baked in.

Technically,  it blocks internet traffic to/from specific sites. So it blocks all ads from those sites (the ones on the installed block list), so browser + apps. It can't yet filter out pre-roll ads on YouTube etc.

Source: my pi-hole ;-)