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… place on the prefs page
…/social-media-collector into fork/nyulegacy
I chose to filter them out in sendPosts as sendPosts was already filtering for posts that were already in the archive. The other place you might think to put the filter was in `applyFilters` as invoked in `feedScanner.js`. However, this place is not correct, because `applyFilters` doesn't mean what you think it does. It does not mean "applying filters". It actually means "apply info on posts that pass this filter". What kind of "info"? Something like applyAdTargetingInfo and applyAdId (going off the top of my head). So...applyFilters wasn't actually doing any filtering at all. Very confusing. It should be renamed.
the number of posts will be shortened by some filter, when that is not true at all. The actual behavior is that ad info is applied to the posts. The only 'filtering' going on is that the ad info is only applied to certain posts, not all posts. An example of a filter is "canShareSponsored". If not true, the ad info is not applied. (this last bit is off the top of my head)
coreDataGrab exists to find the ad ID and token pertaining to an element by recursively iterating through its keys -- and those of any elements/arrays/objects that are values -- to find anything that seems like an ad ID or client token. Previously, this would analyze the `return` key which is something like the parent element. This meant that it would traverse up the tree and back down to siblings, which led to mistakes.
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