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> Look at a Facebook ad in your browser's web inspector, for example. The "Sponsored" tag is made up of 31 different randomly named span tags. https://imgur.com/a/AHZL8ko

Tangential, but I love the image of a frustrated PM at Facebook hearing the news that "hey, you still have to make this label readable to screenreaders," necessitating an `aria-label` with the plain-text content "Sponsored", which makes all their span-chopping junk completely irrelevant to adblocker rules that can now just look for that string as an anchor :)



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