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Record W2773572362 · doi:10.1109/ccst.2017.8167846

CIC-AB: Online ad blocker for browsers

2017· article· en· W2773572362 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSpam and Phishing Detection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
FundersAtlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
KeywordsComputer scienceNaive Bayes classifierRandom forestSupport vector machineMalwareDecision treeMachine learningInformation retrievalWeb pageFilter (signal processing)Artificial intelligenceWorld Wide WebComputer security

Abstract

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Online advertisements (ads) have taken over the web, nowedays most websites contain some sort of ads. While ads produce revenue for the server maintainer or to businesses, they have become intrusive and dangerous as ever. The ads use more bandwidth, show inappropriate content, and spread malware such as adware and ransomware. Although there are many products to block ads, also known as ad blockers, most depend on static filter lists that must be managed manually and frequently updated. When malicious advertisers can produce millions of new URLs within minutes, this is not the most effective method against ads. In this paper we propose our own ad blocker, CIC-AB, which uses machine learning techniques to detect new and unknown ads without needing to update a filter list. The proposed ad blocker has been developed as an extension for the common browsers (e.g. Firefox and Chrome). It classifies URLs, both HTTP and HTTPS, as: non-ad, normal-ad and malicious-ad. The analysis showed the average precision, recall and False Positive rate of CIC-AB for five classifiers namely; Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), Random Forest (RF) and Decision Tree (DT) is 97.16%, 94.96% and 3.38% respectively.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.829
Threshold uncertainty score0.282

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2017
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