Title: One of my hobbies is writing userscripts, specifically adblockers for sites I frequent. Facebook in particular proved a great and worthy adversary on that front, thanks to their attempts to thwart my userscripts. Until very recently, they employed a unique combination of obfuscation techniques to prevent adblockers from programmatically identifying and removing their &quot;Sponsored&quot; posts.<p>Anyway, until recently I had a working (albeit hacky) adblock heuristic for Facebook that did the job. However, sometime today I noticed that my script stopped working.<p>Upon further inspection, they seem to have gone back to simply embedding the word &quot;Sponsored&quot; in plaintext, making it trivial for userscripts and adblockers to select and remove these elements.<p>Is it a fluke, or did Facebook just give up fighting adblock?
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