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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by folkhack on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:32PM (#19117833)
Yep yep - if the text isn't distorted I can rip it from an image within minutes using pre-built OCR libraries. If the text is distorted there's full-blown API-driven services for solving CAPTCHAs and the like.
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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by TimothyBJacobs on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:56PM (#19119468)
It seems like a time span of minutes wouldn't be fast enough for on-the-fly blocking of sponsored posts?
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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by folkhack on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#19119497)
Oh yea - I guess I had a specific use case in mind when I said that =)

What I meant is that I can hammer out some Node/Python that will grab an image w/text and put it through OCR for character extraction. "Programming" it would take me a handful of minutes.

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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by TimothyBJacobs on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:05PM (#19123648)
Ahh, that makes sense!
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