Facebook didn’t mark ads as ads for blind people for almost 2 years

I left the title alone, but as far as I can tell, this is still the case unless screen readers have adopted some type of workaround (I don't personally use one).

I was trying to update my ad blocking filters for the new layout, and I thought I would do a quick search for how screen readers were handling it and found this.

> Facebook has been at war with ad blockers since at least 2016, when Andrew Bosworth, then the company’s VP of Ads & Business Platform, said in a blog post that Facebook’s ads were so “relevant,” “well-made,” and “useful” that Bosworth wrote, “we’ll also begin showing ads on Facebook desktop for people who currently use ad blocking software”—in other words, overriding the user’s software with code tricks.

This excuse is so disingenuous that it would have been better to have said nothing at all.

I wonder when there will be good visual screen readers that don't look at html anymore.

Most screen readers read out part of the URL, and that would make it clear which links were ads.

Having a separate label simply wastes the readers time.