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<blockquote data-quote="oldschool" data-source="post: 887244" data-attributes="member: 71262">A recent post in <a href="https://community.brave.com/t/block-facebook-sponsored-posts/131008/2" target="_blank">Brave Community</a> describing adblocking currently available in Nightly and Dev channels. Coming to release version down the road.&quot;The reason these show is because they are – due to the way FB serves it’s ads – technically first party ads, which are not blocked by default.However, we do have a more aggressive option for Shields that will block any/all ads and trackers regardless of party status – this change is currently in Brave Dev and making its way down the Release pipeline. When you get the update, you’ll see an option like this in your Shields panel:<a href="https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business4/uploads/brave/original/3X/a/c/acc28a0ba2ea9d791c91799744411796e0a6cdbb.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business4/uploads/brave/optimized/3X/a/c/acc28a0ba2ea9d791c91799744411796e0a6cdbb_2_361x500.jpeg" alt="image" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business4/uploads/brave/original/3X/a/c/acc28a0ba2ea9d791c91799744411796e0a6cdbb.jpeg" target="_blank">image764×1056 133 KB</a>Selecting the (Aggressive) option will block the sponsored FB ads you’re seeing as well.<a href="https://community.brave.com/u/fanboynz" target="_blank">fanboynz</a>Note, Facebook are notorious for evading adblocking tools. It wouldn’t be surprising these are showing up. They using same page elements of user posts and ads, making it harder to block without creating false positives.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldschool, post: 887244, member: 71262"] A recent post in [URL='https://community.brave.com/t/block-facebook-sponsored-posts/131008/2']Brave Community[/URL] describing adblocking currently available in Nightly and Dev channels. Coming to release version down the road. "The reason these show is because they are – due to the way FB serves it’s ads – [I]technically[/I] first party ads, which are not blocked by default. However, we do have a more aggressive option for Shields that will block any/all ads and trackers regardless of party status – this change is currently in Brave Dev and making its way down the Release pipeline. When you get the update, you’ll see an option like this in your Shields panel: [URL='https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business4/uploads/brave/original/3X/a/c/acc28a0ba2ea9d791c91799744411796e0a6cdbb.jpeg'][IMG alt="image"]https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business4/uploads/brave/optimized/3X/a/c/acc28a0ba2ea9d791c91799744411796e0a6cdbb_2_361x500.jpeg[/IMG] image764×1056 133 KB[/URL] Selecting the (Aggressive) option will block the sponsored FB ads you’re seeing as well. [URL='https://community.brave.com/u/fanboynz']fanboynz[/URL] Note, Facebook are notorious for evading adblocking tools. It wouldn’t be surprising these are showing up. They using same page elements of user posts and ads, making it harder to block without creating false positives." [/QUOTE]

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