Facebook disguised sponsored ads as regular posts, Adblock Plus fixed that

Reminder that Adblock plus sells ads and extorts advertisers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;adblock-plus-created-to-protect-users-from-ads-opens-the-door.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;adblock-pl...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@trybravery&#x2F;please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@trybravery&#x2F;please-stop-using-adblock-but...</a>. (HN commentary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16997272" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16997272</a>)<p>Use Ublock Origin for a real adblock.<p>Also, I find it suspicious that the user who submitted the post only exclusively submits articles from &quot;sociable-co&quot;.

I noticed one of these recently and tried to block it with an adblocker by finding the word Sponsored. I looked at the source code and found that they separated each letter of the word &#x27;Sponsored&#x27; into separate html tags, making it impossible to find it by text. So sleazy, Facebook.

Isn&#x27;t this a violation of FTC rules?