@monorail ...what the absolute fuck is this
@monorail like, how does that defeat adblock in the first place
@Felthry it can’t find the “sponsored” text
@monorail can't it just look at the rendered output instead of the raw html, or some intermediate pass of rendering?
@Felthry not easily, at least
@monorail also I just realized those letters are in basically no order whatsoever, how does that work
@Felthry that is not all of it
@monorail even so why does that render as "sponsored" and not as "...jjknwjyywS..."
@Felthry css is used to make all the letters that aren’t supposed to be there invisible
@Austin_Dern @monorail I was thinking about how this is similar to the purpose of TeX and briefly had a thought of webpages written in LaTeX and uh. that's kind of a scary thought
@Austin_Dern @monorail then again, having access to TikZ and math mode on websites would be handy....
@Austin_Dern @monorail yeah but it's really hard to get TeX to put a picture in precisely the location you want, or at least we haven't found out how
@Felthry @monorail Oh yes, now, *that*'s absolutely impossible.
... WordPress has this sweet little inline LaTeX engine so if you need a simple equation you can write, like, $latex f:x\rightarrow x^2 $ and it renders that on the fly. And you can put in inline CSS to your site, so it's completely impossible to predict what it shows.
(Mathstodon.xyz has that LaTeX engine too.)