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I have uBlock origin and I still occasionally see ads in Facebook feeds.
by Jackim 7y ago
I have uBlock origin and I still occasionally see ads in Facebook feeds.
- username444 7y agoFacebook puts a lot of time and effort into obfuscation of course code. They generate random classes and IDs and interweave containers (divs, spans, custom HTML elements) on each page load so that software can't tell what is content and what is an ad. It's actually a really neat trick.
- Jackim 7y agoIt is definitely impressive. But it's something that I think could be defeated pretty easily with a pretty simple machine learning model. Could be a fun project!
- kasey_junk 7y agoNote that your adversary has a huge ML capability and approaching nation state resources. Careful with the terms easily & simple.
- technologic 7y agolol the limit approaching nation state
- zrobotics 7y agoWhat an absolute shame that they waste the time of all their highly-skilled developers on garbage like that. The user has specifically indicated, by running an ad-blocker, that they aren't interested in being marketed to. At least for me, ads that bypass my blockers really irritate me, to the point that whatever company was unfortunate enough to win that bid actually hurts themselves as I will be more likely to select a competitors product.
- criddell 7y agoI'd love to see some regulation around this. Ads should be clearly and unambiguously identified as such in a machine-readable way.