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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers

The next technique, this is the point where it gets particularly interesting, Facebook actually hides 'dummy' DOM nodes between the 'Sponsored' text.

Using data attributes instead of straight text in the DOM, nesting DOM elements to make DOM parsing more difficult, and adding random DOM nodes between characters to obfuscate the output.

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