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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.
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.