Facebook’s Whack-a-Mole Markup Battle Against Ad Blockers

Wolfie Christl:

Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block ‘Sponsored’ posts, oh my.

One look at the markup in the tweet he links to is enough to drive an HTML purist to drink.

★ Friday, 8 February 2019