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does not identify ads on common 18+ sites
Does not correctly identify ads on 18+ sites like p***hub.com
or youp***.com
, besides Remove Ads
and Ads By ...
designations. The HTML even has ad-
classes.
Do these ads include the Adchoices icon
? The Perceptual Ad Blocker currently finds and highlights advertisements with this icon; any other advertisements will not be blocked. If they do have adchoices icons, please send screenshots. Thanks!
Why don't we block ads, even if they have such obvious class names? The goal is to avoid relying on markup like presence of the "ad-" class, which could be easily changed, and instead to rely on features that are visible to the user (and therefore harder to change), like the Adchoices icon. What this means at the moment is that it does not find non-Adchoices compliant ads.
i understand that the ad-class is not a good choice as a feature of a classifier for the given reasons.
however, the adchoices icon is not available in the majority of ads, so any algorithm that want to identify ads should not rely on them too much.