alt Hacker News> DOM (scraping, ad blockers etc.) harder or impossible.
This is a cat mouse fight, and Facebook already does some ultra-shady stuff like rendering a word as a list of randomly ordered divs for each character, and only using CSS to display in a readable way.
But it can't be made impossible, at the worst case we can always just capture the screen and use an AI to recognize ads, wasting a lot of energy. The same is true for cheating in video games and many forms of online integrity problems - I can just hire a good player who would play in my place, and no technology could recognize that.
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> no technology could recognize that.
Perhaps require monitoring of the arm muscle electrical signals, build a profile, match the readings to the game actions and check that the profile matches the advertised player
I think that's hilarious. Can you point me to some documentation on that? Such as why they'd do it?
(To make scraping and automation harder, perhaps?)
> ultra-shady stuff like rendering a word as a list of randomly ordered divs for each character, and only using CSS to display in a readable way.
I wonder how much the developers writing that are being paid to be complete assholes.