Revisiting Adblock Circumvention

Abstract

The talk covered how circumvention differs from publisher responses such as anti-adblocking and whitelisting. It discussed the differences between different circumvention techniques (cloaking vs. obfuscation techniques). It covered the state of anti-circumvention and how our work can help reduce human labeling effort to identify sites with successful circumvention.

Date
Oct 21, 2020 —
Location
Virtual
Hieu Le
Hieu Le
Senior Technologist

Senior Technologist at the FTC’s Office of Technology, focused on tech and policy. Research expertise in web privacy, censorship measurement, and applied machine learning.