{"id":17755,"date":"2017-04-17T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:10:14","slug":"ad-blocker-using-computer-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/ad-blocker-using-computer-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad-Blocker Using Computer Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/princetons-ad-blocking-superweapon-may-put-an-end-to-the-ad-blocking-arms-race\">Jason Koebler<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14116413\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/princetons-ad-blocking-superweapon-may-put-an-end-to-the-ad-blocking-arms-race\"><p>A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works, in an attempt to put an end to the advertising versus ad-blocking arms race. The ad blocker they&rsquo;ve created is lightweight, evaded anti ad-blocking scripts on 50 out of the 50 websites it was tested on, and can block Facebook ads that were previously unblockable.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>First, it looks at the struggle between advertising and ad blockers as fundamentally a security problem that can be fought in much the same way antivirus programs attempt to block malware, using techniques borrowed from rootkits and built-in web browser customizability to stealthily block ads without being detected. Second, the team notes that there are regulations and laws on the books that give a fundamental advantage to consumers that cannot be easily changed, opening the door to a long-term ad-blocking solution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14116847\">downandout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14116847\"><p>The article puts a significant emphasis on the idea that bulletproof ad-blocking technology, assuming that&rsquo;s what this turns out to be in practice, will work long-term because of legal restrictions imposed by the FTC. If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to keep them happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14116802\">IIIIIIIIIIII<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14116802\"><p>Right now all that people on both sides have to know is human psychology. In that future they&rsquo;ll have to understand the potentially far more varied world of possible AIs - and if that isn&rsquo;t enough the complex interactions between them and also between the AIs and the humans.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Koebler (via Hacker News): A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works, in an attempt to put an end to the advertising versus ad-blocking arms race. The ad blocker they&rsquo;ve created is lightweight, evaded anti ad-blocking scripts on 50 out of the 50 websites it was tested on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,1351,25,1156,51,96],"class_list":["post-17755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-facebook","tag-federal-trade-commission-ftc","tag-google","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17756,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions\/17756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}