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Record W3018751076 · doi:10.5539/cis.v13n2p27

Using Deep Learning to Block Web Tracking

2020· article· en· W3018751076 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jianyi Wang

Bibliographic record

VenueComputer and Information Science · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBitTorrent trackerComputer scienceBlock (permutation group theory)Tracking (education)Deep learningArtificial intelligenceBlocking (statistics)Domain (mathematical analysis)Domain nameActivity trackerAnalyticsWeb analyticsWorld Wide WebThe InternetEye trackingData scienceOperating systemComputer network

Abstract

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Most websites that users browse every day utilize trackers that can identify who users are and what activities they conduct online. Although there are benefits to these trackers, they also raise considerable privacy concerns. This research study examines the issue of how to identify web trackers and how to protect users from being tracked. Specifically, this study investigates how AI Deep Learning technologies can be leveraged to identify and stop trackers. The main idea of AI Tracker Blocking is that AI can detect the small differences between tracker server domains and non-tracker server domains. For instance, a tracker domain may appear like this: analytics.xxx.bid, whereas a non-tracker domain may be like this: mail.xxx.com. Although it is likely impossible to block all trackers, results from this study indicate that there are new ways to identify them using Deep Learning.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Open science
Consensus categoriesOpen science
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.970
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.012
Open science0.0100.034
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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.235 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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