Russian administration scrambles the election results to make them hard to parse

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Specifically, instead of directly providing numbers in html, they do this УФР ж</td> which supposed to be an integer number. Apparently they have more than one way of doing that.

Just like Facebook does, right?

Where do they do that? I mean, the modern frameworks and trackers make front-end code very unreadable, but do they scramble some content?

To counter adblockers Facebook puts the text "Sponsored Ad" in multiple span, like each letter in a different one, so it's harder to blocks those posts on the timeline.

[edit] screenshots of the span and divs and repeated letters https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/125037/is-it-pos...

Ah, yes, you're right. I remember having done some temporary workaround, but it ceased to work since then.

Facebook does this on the post dates as well and elsewhere.

Thankfully the "cipher" is monoalphabetic. Nothing a "grep" couldn't fix.

But the very, very bad aftertaste remains. A country run by mobsters that laugh in your face.

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