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4.51★ from 35,254,218 ratings · 168 negative reviews read in 4 storefronts · 7 complaints

Excessive advertising overwhelming content feed

14of the 168 read8%

Users report far too many ads cluttering the feed, burying friends' posts, and making the app unusable as a social platform.

Britain 9 · Germany 5 · joined from 2 wordings

read 4 of these reviews
“Stop the Ad nonsense on reels — The introduction of ads in reels is driving me mad. I’ve just watched one where there there were SEVEN unskippable ads in the first 4.5 minutes!! At least it’ll now stop me from doom scrolling….or using Facebook…as much. Ps I’ll never buy anything the companies who advertise like this because of these ads you know?” — ★☆☆☆☆“scam — to many adds and scam content” — ★★☆☆☆“Waste of time — Far too many useless adverts and fake clips” — ★☆☆☆☆“Ads, ads — Before I can read an article from my acquaintances, there's 5x ads after every article. The articles from my acquaintances are ancient (at least 2 months old) and are still shown over and over again. Too bad” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German

Accounts disabled or suspended without explanation

7of the 168 read4%

Accounts permanently disabled for unclear reasons; users lose all memories and work contacts without justification.

France 4 · Britain 3 · joined from 2 wordings

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“Facebook deleting my account — I don’t do anything and Facebook has repeatedly deleted 4 accounts back to back, for account integrity. I appeal the decision and show my literal ID and it doesn’t accept it. This is out of order, I’ve lost family memories and messages now. Facebook shouldn’t be deleting accounts” — ★☆☆☆☆“Worst app ever — They suspended my old fb account.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Deleted my account — Randomly disabled my account that I’ve had for 18 years and won’t give me access back even though I haven’t gone against any of their community standards.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Si la honte pour vous, vous méritez même pas un étoile — Désactiver définitivement mes comptes Facebook où il y a tous mes souvenirs, tous mes clients de Travail sans aucune raison, c’est honteux pour vous” — ★☆☆☆☆

Too many advertisements drowning out content

5of the 168 read3%

Users see only ads and sponsored content instead of friends' posts; feed filled with unwanted advertisements.

read 3 of these reviews
“Que des pub plus d amis — Que des pub plus d’amis” — ★☆☆☆☆“Mauvais — Pub, pub et repub! Les modérateurs qui ne servent à rien, une grosse daube!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Trop de publicités — Trop de publicités , nous ne voyons plus les informations de nos amis. C’était mieux avant.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Inadequate content moderation and censorship

4of the 168 read2%

Moderation ignores death threats and incivility while over-censoring legitimate content; contradictory enforcement.

read 3 of these reviews
“Lieu agressif — Facebook est un lieu ou tu peux menacer de mort n’importe qui et le service de modération te dira « aucun problème » 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻” — ★☆☆☆☆“Mauvais — Pub, pub et repub! Les modérateurs qui ne servent à rien, une grosse daube!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Les commentaires — Mauvaise gestion des commentaires ET des profils. Nombre d’incivilités ne devraient même pas être publiées.” — ★★☆☆☆

Account banned or restricted without clear explanation

3of the 168 read2%

Users banned or restricted from sharing posts and content, with no explanation of what violated policy or how to appeal.

read 3 of these reviews
“Not Right — I was kicked off my other account for sharing something that 1. Was a funny joke and 2. I found on Facebook.THATS NOT RIGHT” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Restricted for sharing others’ posts! — FB restricted me and can’t even show me what I shared. Idiots.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Joke of a app — Got banned from marketplace for trying to sell a vortex binocular case. Apparently that’s against the rules???” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Translation feature no longer works

3of the 168 read2%

The post translation function has stopped working or shows 'translation not available' messages, unlike on Instagram.

read 3 of these reviews
“Has gotten worse — I report errors via support and nothing happens. Why are languages no longer translated in the feed?! Arabic-German "Translation not available". On Instagram which also belongs to Meta this works though!” — ★★☆☆☆ · German“Getting worse and worse — There's increasingly pointless and also fraudulent advertising. Reporting it is pointless because nobody cares. I now go through the browser with an ad blocker instead. A thousand times better. The translator doesn't work at all anymore.” — ★★☆☆☆ · German“Translator — Since the update, translation no longer works, please fix it” — ★★☆☆☆ · German

App interface bugs and non-functional buttons

3of the 168 read2%

Multiple UI elements are broken or malfunction, including buttons and navigation features throughout the app.

read 3 of these reviews
“??? — Your fantastic app deletes accounts irrevocably despite video ident and every 2nd button is bugged! Congratulations!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German“Can't select "Latest Replies" anymore — What kind of nonsense is this, that in closed groups you can't sort replies by "Latest" and "All Replies" anymore, but only get the "Relevant" ones shown first🤬 If a post already has 548 replies and I want to see the newest comment, do I have to scroll all the way to the end?? Who came up with this bullshit. And when I ask why it's like this, I get the stupid answer: that fb…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German“Not iOS Tablet compatible — I use the app on the Apple tablet and it's really not nice anymore. New notifications are displayed but then there aren't any. I only see these via the mobile app or on the computer. When I go to a post, the back button is often too high and covered by the tablet's clock and date/time. I can't leave groups via the app on the tablet. It's so annoying!!!” — ★★☆☆☆ · German

Reviews are grouped one storefront at a time, so each storefront words its complaints separately. Two are added together here when they carry the same name, or when their wordings share half their meaningful words — one fixed rule, applied the same way to every app, and the reviews under each complaint are there to check it against. Where it is close but not certain the two stay apart, so this under-joins rather than over-joins.

Storefront by storefront

United States

4.53★ from 28,239,916 ratings · version 578.0.0 · 69 of the last 150 written reviews are one or two stars

Account banned or restricted without clear explanation

3of the 69 read4%

Users banned or restricted from sharing posts and content, with no explanation of what violated policy or how to appeal.

read 3 of these reviews
“Not Right — I was kicked off my other account for sharing something that 1. Was a funny joke and 2. I found on Facebook.THATS NOT RIGHT” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Restricted for sharing others’ posts! — FB restricted me and can’t even show me what I shared. Idiots.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Joke of a app — Got banned from marketplace for trying to sell a vortex binocular case. Apparently that’s against the rules???” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 69 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected today.

Britain

4.52★ from 3,198,368 ratings · version 578.0.0 · 40 of the last 84 written reviews are one or two stars

Excessive advertising overwhelming content feed

9of the 40 read23%

Users report far too many ads cluttering the feed, burying friends' posts, and making the app unusable as a social platform.

read 3 of these reviews
“Stop the Ad nonsense on reels — The introduction of ads in reels is driving me mad. I’ve just watched one where there there were SEVEN unskippable ads in the first 4.5 minutes!! At least it’ll now stop me from doom scrolling….or using Facebook…as much. Ps I’ll never buy anything the companies who advertise like this because of these ads you know?” — ★☆☆☆☆“scam — to many adds and scam content” — ★★☆☆☆“Waste of time — Far too many useless adverts and fake clips” — ★☆☆☆☆

Account suspended or deleted without explanation

3of the 40 read8%

Accounts repeatedly deleted or suspended without clear reason, with appeals rejected and personal memories lost permanently.

read 3 of these reviews
“Facebook deleting my account — I don’t do anything and Facebook has repeatedly deleted 4 accounts back to back, for account integrity. I appeal the decision and show my literal ID and it doesn’t accept it. This is out of order, I’ve lost family memories and messages now. Facebook shouldn’t be deleting accounts” — ★☆☆☆☆“Worst app ever — They suspended my old fb account.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Deleted my account — Randomly disabled my account that I’ve had for 18 years and won’t give me access back even though I haven’t gone against any of their community standards.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 40 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected today.

France

4.41★ from 2,417,366 ratings · version 578.0.0 · 31 of the last 68 written reviews are one or two stars

Too many advertisements drowning out content

5of the 31 read16%

Users see only ads and sponsored content instead of friends' posts; feed filled with unwanted advertisements.

read 3 of these reviews
“Que des pub plus d amis — Que des pub plus d’amis” — ★☆☆☆☆“Mauvais — Pub, pub et repub! Les modérateurs qui ne servent à rien, une grosse daube!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Trop de publicités — Trop de publicités , nous ne voyons plus les informations de nos amis. C’était mieux avant.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Accounts disabled or suspended without explanation

4of the 31 read13%

Accounts permanently disabled for unclear reasons; users lose all memories and work contacts without justification.

read 3 of these reviews
“Si la honte pour vous, vous méritez même pas un étoile — Désactiver définitivement mes comptes Facebook où il y a tous mes souvenirs, tous mes clients de Travail sans aucune raison, c’est honteux pour vous” — ★☆☆☆☆“Hesap kapanması — Saçma sapan nedenlerle hemen hesaplar kapatılıyor” — ★☆☆☆☆“Ca devient n’importe quoi — Depuis des années que j’avais mon compte, aujourd’hui compte supprimé car mon nom ne correspondait pas a celui de ma carte d’identité 😡 bref censure a mort, des pub a tout va. Je banni a mon tour meta pour moi et mon entourage.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Inadequate content moderation and censorship

4of the 31 read13%

Moderation ignores death threats and incivility while over-censoring legitimate content; contradictory enforcement.

read 3 of these reviews
“Lieu agressif — Facebook est un lieu ou tu peux menacer de mort n’importe qui et le service de modération te dira « aucun problème » 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻” — ★☆☆☆☆“Mauvais — Pub, pub et repub! Les modérateurs qui ne servent à rien, une grosse daube!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Les commentaires — Mauvaise gestion des commentaires ET des profils. Nombre d’incivilités ne devraient même pas être publiées.” — ★★☆☆☆

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 31 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected today.

Germany

4.38★ from 1,398,568 ratings · version 578.1 · 28 of the last 57 written reviews are one or two stars

Excessive advertising overwhelming the feed

5of the 28 read18%

Too many ads appear between posts from friends, making it hard to see actual content. Ads flood the feed constantly despite attempts to remove them.

read 3 of these reviews
“Ads, ads — Before I can read an article from my acquaintances, there's 5x ads after every article. The articles from my acquaintances are ancient (at least 2 months old) and are still shown over and over again. Too bad” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German“Advertising — Unfortunately way too much advertising, keeping in touch with your friends gets covered up by all the advertising even if you constantly delete it” — ★★☆☆☆ · German“When you open the app… — You get flooded with everything you're NOT interested in and you DON'T find what you are interested in. I wish there was a setting to hide the Dating, Marketplace and Reels menu items. Also, it would be commendable if between ads there wasn't even more ads, but posts from my friends and groups! These crappy scam suggestions and ads are extremely annoying. No wonder hardly anyone uses Facebook…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German

Translation feature no longer works

3of the 28 read11%

The post translation function has stopped working or shows 'translation not available' messages, unlike on Instagram.

read 3 of these reviews
“Has gotten worse — I report errors via support and nothing happens. Why are languages no longer translated in the feed?! Arabic-German "Translation not available". On Instagram which also belongs to Meta this works though!” — ★★☆☆☆ · German“Getting worse and worse — There's increasingly pointless and also fraudulent advertising. Reporting it is pointless because nobody cares. I now go through the browser with an ad blocker instead. A thousand times better. The translator doesn't work at all anymore.” — ★★☆☆☆ · German“Translator — Since the update, translation no longer works, please fix it” — ★★☆☆☆ · German

App interface bugs and non-functional buttons

3of the 28 read11%

Multiple UI elements are broken or malfunction, including buttons and navigation features throughout the app.

read 3 of these reviews
“??? — Your fantastic app deletes accounts irrevocably despite video ident and every 2nd button is bugged! Congratulations!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German“Can't select "Latest Replies" anymore — What kind of nonsense is this, that in closed groups you can't sort replies by "Latest" and "All Replies" anymore, but only get the "Relevant" ones shown first🤬 If a post already has 548 replies and I want to see the newest comment, do I have to scroll all the way to the end?? Who came up with this bullshit. And when I ask why it's like this, I get the stupid answer: that fb…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · German“Not iOS Tablet compatible — I use the app on the Apple tablet and it's really not nice anymore. New notifications are displayed but then there aren't any. I only see these via the mobile app or on the computer. When I go to a post, the back button is often too high and covered by the tablet's clock and date/time. I can't leave groups via the app on the tablet. It's so annoying!!!” — ★★☆☆☆ · German

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 28 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected today.

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