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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?
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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.
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