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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 | 3 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | 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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1. manigandham ◴[08 Feb 19 18:34 UTC] No.19117235[source]▶
There's another homepage thread about Spotify doing the same thing and that's received positively. When you deliver value to billions of people who don't want to pay, ads are part of the package. And those ads have helped thousands of companies grow and provide all those other fun jobs.

The amount of hate advertising gets is just silly. It'd be great if we could push personal responsibility with even 1/10th of the effort.

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2. whywhywhywhy ◴[08 Feb 19 23:55 UTC] No.19119744[source]▶
Same way how Face ID is cheered for and Windows Hello is “creepy”

Same concept. Very similar implementation but company brand goes a hell of a long way.

3. rwz ◴[10 Feb 19 22:31 UTC] No.19130518[source]▶
I think the main reason is that Spotify provides an option to pay them and not deal with all this bullshit. Facebook doesn't.