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Not that I use Facebook myself, but I think this was a misstep in the U block team.
All this did was tell the major companies out there that the only thing they have to do to make it so u block origins no longer works on their site is to make it extremely tedious for the team working on the project to make filters. So I expect that now that they've officially dropped support for Facebook, the other major sites are going to look at how Facebook is doing it, and they're going to adopt a similar systems
Companies absolutely can pay people solely to combat ad blockers. That will always win. Facebook doesn't have a "system" other than always changing their system. Any company can constantly change how they display ads. The ad blockers are just always playing catch up until the corporation exhausts the volunteers energy.
If the solution is to get new volunteers to keep up the work, why don't we have people willing to take on that role? Most people that have the know how arent using facebook anyway, so there's no motivation from them.
Without legislature to enforce some rules on corporations, the ones with the money will always win.
This looks like the problem here isn't a technical one, like how to best render a site.
The problem is that some of us (too many) have become dependent on hostile systems (machines + hostile owners + desperate humans willing to serve the owners in exchang for bread aka the employees).
The solution as I see it is twofold: