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0 pointscomprev3y ago0 comments

Facebook does something similar to combat adblockers. They mangle the names of div elements to make sponsored posts indistinguishable from friends/group posts. I'm not aware of any browser plugins which are effective at blocking FB ads.

Anyone know if other websites put as much effort into anti-adblock engineering?

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oefrha3y ago

A vision (ML)-based blocker should easily blow rigid rule-based cosmetic blockers out of the water and render div soup obfuscation completely useless. Not sure anyone’s investing in that space though.

Once you’ve defeated obfuscation you’ll be dealing with DOM integrity-based defenses.

wantlotsofcurry3y ago

I think Workday does the same. Trying to scrape data from there was a nightmare (team didn't have api access).

mgdlbp3y ago

Could you not base a filter on whether a div contains text matching your list of groups and friends?

lostmsu3y ago

FB Purity seems to be keeping up. But it is not a general purpose adblocker.

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