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zhoutong on Sept 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing' violates HTT...

When you browse the web, you don't GET the pages. Your browser does much more than that.

If you really GET the page and parse the HTML yourself, you won't get these ads, for sure.

If Facebook uses POST in their JavaScript, then what's wrong?

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