Don't want political ads in your Facebook or Instagram feed? You'll be able to turn that off

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Seeing ads in your Facebook and Instagram feeds comes with the territory of using the social network. But over the next few weeks, Facebook will let you turn off all political ads. The announcement comes as the protests against social injustice continue and the 2020 US election cycle ramps up.

The feature -- first announced earlier this year -- will roll out to all US Facebook users over the next few weeks, according to a blog post from the company. You'll be able to prevent all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other organizations that have the "Paid for by" political disclaimer on them from populating your stream.

The optional feature is part of Facebook's wider efforts around voting, including a new voter center that will give people information about how and when to vote, voter registration, voting by mail and early voting.

Once the feature reaches your account, you'll have two different ways to turn off political ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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https://www.cnet.com/how-to/dont-want-political-ads-in-your-facebook-or-instagram-feed-youll-be-able-to-turn-that-off/?ftag=CAD-04-10abf6e&bhid=24447454298893839703959737945916&mid=12886517&cid=534320049

[brooklynite]

1. I never get any...

...maybe it's because I'm judicious about whom I consider a "friend".

[SeattleVet]

2. I never see any ads on FB - or pretty much anywhere else.

The SocialFixer plugin for browsers blocks pretty much all of the FB ads. AdBlock Plus filters out a good amount, and PiHole (super easy to set up Raspberry Pi application) pretty well handles all the rest.

The PiHole is the best, and is the first-line defense, since it is essentially a local DNS lookup that prevents even downloading the ads in the first place, from all of the devices on your entire LAN. Many of the others applications download them, but just don't display them. This makes browsing the web MUCH faster (about 30% of the traffic that's been blocked on my home net is ads, based on the logfiles).

The only thing it doesn't work on is YouTube ads served in the videos, but I have a Chrome plugin that blocks those very well, too.

It's very nice to have a web experience without all of the ad clutter, and a much faster browser.