Solved Facebook feed reloading rapidly

[Pathduck]

@Thot No, what I tried to say is, the list Vivaldi uses from its own server is outdated. It doesn't matter what the time in Vivaldi says, the file is two weeks old:

! Last modified: 13 Jun 2022 05:44 UTC

Disable the Vivaldi list, and try adding the updated list directly:
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/abp-filters-anti-cv.txt

! Last modified: 27 Jun 2022 14:54 UTC

[Thot]

@Pathduck OK—ABP filters activated; ABP anti-circum… deactivate helps. Can I then delete ABP anti?

[Pathduck]

@Thot OK if I understand correctly, it looks like this:

And then it works?

If so V team only needs to update their proxied file and it should be OK for all users.

[Thot]

@Pathduck Then it works!

[Guidant]

@Pathduck For me, I changed the inbuilt Tracker/Blocker to the middle option – "Block Trackers" and FB now appears to work normally.
Presumably that means Ads are blocked but Trackers are not.

Running Vivaldi 5.3.2679.61 on Mac OS X Mojave.
Running no other extensions or Ad blockers etc.

[Pathduck]

@Guidant said in Facebook reloading rapidly:

For me, I changed the inbuilt Tracker/Blocker to the middle option – "Block Trackers" and FB now appears to work normally.
Presumably that means Ads are blocked but Trackers are not.

The opposite - it means trackers are blocked, ads are not

From the investigation kindly done by @Thot above, it seems that a lack of updated blocklists might be the cause of a lot of these issues.

[Guidant]

@Pathduck Yes, of course you are correct – DOH.

Now I have those 'Sponsored' ads showing up on the right hand side of the page.

[Thot]

Thank you so much @Pathduck for your kind words. But, either way, without @Pathduck it would’ve been impossible and I learnt something new, by just doing it.

[Thot]

@Guidant That’s what fb is made for!
What’s with the EasyLists? I have no sponsered Ads there.

[thomasp]

This problem has now been fixed - as @Pathduck correctly noticed, a stale copy of the adblocker sources on our end was to blame. Once your copy of Vivaldi updates its adblocking lists, it should work as expected again. If you wish to force an update right now, you can go in to Settings > Privacy and Security > Tracker and Ad Blocking > Manage Sources, and toggle the lists that you are using off and on again.

[thomasp]

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[Entryfee]

@thomasp I have applied this fix several times, closed and reopened the browser but the FB posts still update rapidly in succession
If i turn off ad blocker and leave it on block trackers only, it is fine

[KimberTLEii]

@KimberTLEii Oddly, today, the problem seems to have disappeared! Perhaps Facebook has updated their code, because Vivaldi hasn't updated in at least 5 days (version 5.3.2679.61 (Stable channel) (64-bit))

[Pathduck]

@KimberTLEii See first page of this topic for the explanation.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/77121/facebook-feed-reloading-rapidly

I have moved your posts as they were not related to the other problem.

[thomasp]

@Entryfee do you have the ABP anti-circumvention list enabled? If not, you may wish to try doing so.

[Entryfee]

@thomasp yes i do. That has not been touched by me. It updated at 13:30 GMT today.
I have just checked FB again and it is performing normally now.
Thanks to everyone who helped sort this out

[jinelle]

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[jinelle]

Thanks @thomasp and the Vivaldi Team. This solution worked. I'm new to Vilvaldi as of yesterday

[ElodieBz]

@darkwolf Bonsoir
Je vous remercie pour votre retour.
Je viens de changer le mode de blocage, ça a l'air de fonctionner, merci encore !!

cdt