My dad's old and uses the Facebook app on his phone a lot and gets bombarded with ads and shit everyday.He keeps getting targeted ads for his health problems and wants to always click on or buy whatever's being shown to him, believing it's a real product and will help him (literally tells his doctors about it, thinking they're hiding better solutions from him and confuses the hell out of them.) He can't move around as much anymore after he fell ill 2 years ago, so I often do his shopping for him, and he tells me to find these bullshit products that don't exist.I've tried telling him not to click on any ads or pay attention to them as they're not real and won't help him, but he either tell me he knows and forgets or gets mad at me and tells me to find the thing or else he'll force himself to look for it when he struggles so hard to walk. It drives me crazy and I'm also concerned he's going to get scammed or get hacked or whatever.Is there a way to remove or block all these ads on the Facebook app at all? uBlock Origin's installed on his browser so he doesn't get ads there, but he never uses the browser for Facebook, and he'll get angry and upset if I remove the Facebook app and tell him to use the browser, and he's not very good with tech nor likes complicated stuff. I don't want to take Facebook away from him since it's his choice, just block and remove all the ads so he doesn't feel this bizarre buy!buy!buy! bullshit brainwashing him and I hate seeing him act this way.
>>1539454Use an adblocking DNS like Blokada and use its 'social host file'
>>1539456How? I never used DNS before
>>1539464Looks like they have an app for youhttps://blokada.org/
>>1539476>paid serviceew
>>1539529It has a free version.
>>1539476>>1539530Doesn't seem to work very well, still seeing those shitty ads. Gonna have to pass on this
Do you have a phone that allows you to specify a custom DNS? My Samsung Android phone has a private DNS option. Set it to dns.adguard.com
>>1539692Yes, my dad and I have a Samsung Galaxy A12. I actually already tried that. I used to use it to bypass Twitch ads myself, but at some point it stopped working entirely while sometimes disconnecting from the wifi. So it doesn't work anymore
>>1539454>ads on Facebookthat's literally the entire enshittified purpose of Facebook, get you hooked on a dopamine slot machine then show you shitty ads, hence why it's practically impossible to avoid. There are alternative apps and stuff out there like Nobook, but most of them are simply wrapped versions of the website and the ad-blocking/sponsored stuff will break when Facebook changes things.Otherwise, as others have said, you'll need to do some learning about DNS-based adblocking. Blokada (standalone, not subscription version) does work, and there's also options like https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/net.kollnig.missioncontrolGood luck
>>1539721I know, and I wanna keep the ads from fucking with my dad's brain, especially the pop up ones because he'll mindlessly click on anything. If it's some stupid shit about a "solution" for his medical issues, he believes it like an NPC and parrots it.While I can't get him off Facebook and he has a right to use what he wants, I at least want most ads gone so he doesn't get that garbage anymore.Blokada didn't work for whatever reason, and I'm unsure on your link. Is it an app or a file?
>>1539726Then try Nobook, or try some custom blocklists or something. You may even have to look into using a PiHole or something like that. There are no easy solutions because again, the whole purpose of FB is to serve ads, so you're literally trying to the block the main thing the FB app is built to do, and of course FB will make that hard.
Try patching the app with Revanced https://revanced.app/Or thishttps://github.com/AdAway/AdAwayOr this but it seems early in developmenthttps://github.com/ycngmn/Nobook
>>1539454I’m not exactly sure if it would help, but you can go into his Facebook profile settings and turn off targeted ads, and try to turn it off in other places on his phone. I’m not sure what phone you have. Of course it probably won’t fix the issue entirely and might piss him off for different reasons.
>>1539687Enable the adaway blocklist
>>1539928Phone's a Samsung Galaxy A12. I believe I did alter his account settings, but he still gets a bunch daily, especially pop ups>>1540018Tried, didn't work
