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Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

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550 points polskibus | 1 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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locklock ◴[08 Feb 19 16:47 UTC] No.19116039[source]▶
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
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duxup ◴[08 Feb 19 17:49 UTC] No.19116769[source]▶
It sounds like a fun challenge.

It's just ads. If we're talking about some ad for a coffee maker, whatever.

Now their whole selling data to unscrupulous folks, taking money from parents via their kids, selling fake news that makes people hate other people (now that gets into the ad space...) ....

That's where I'd want to nope out.

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rchaud ◴[08 Feb 19 18:09 UTC] No.19116992[source]▶
Those two scenarios aren't mutually exclusive. One hand washes the other, the distinction is only between who gives the order and who carries it out.
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1. duxup ◴[08 Feb 19 18:16 UTC] No.19117063[source]▶
I think you can have "legitimate ads".

I think plenty of people are happy to do illegitimate things with them too, and Facebook is as dirty as it gets, but that doesn't mean ads can't be fairly mutually exclusive from scams, fake news, and etc if someone wanted them to be.