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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by SilasX on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:31PM (#12258689)
Distinguish them to human viewers, not to computers. If the aggregate effect of all the CSS and element classes is to make ads look one way and non-ads look a different way (each with slight variations), it's an AI-complete problem infer an answer to "given these elements and this CSS sheet, which subset of them looks different and add-like to a human?"
Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by robrenaud on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:58PM (#12259233)
Is it an AI-complete problem to do email spam classification? Why is determining if a facebook post is an ad or not so different than spam classification?
Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by SilasX on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:12AM (#12259463)
It's AI complete to do it with human level accuracy, yes. If you don't mind blocking random friends' posts, you can craft the ad blocker to remove them all.