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If you inspect the markup of Facebook ads you’ll see it’s beyond insane.
by andrei_says_ 5y ago
If you inspect the markup of Facebook ads you’ll see it’s beyond insane.
- ceejayoz 5y agoYeah. That little block of text that says "Sponsored" alone is 4,224 characters of nonsense. https://pastebin.com/DZdNkiw2 https://pastebin.com/DZdNkiw2
- bener 5y agoThat's insane!
- andrei_says_ 5y agoThe insane but logical outcome of the arms race between advertisers and adblockers.
- tedmiston 5y agoI tried to scrape a private Facebook group once and came away with the same takeaway about that markup. They junkify everything so aggressively that it might actually be easier to render the page in a headless browser and "scrape" it with OCR.