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<blockquote data-quote="Lenny_Fox" data-source="post: 843602" data-attributes="member: 82776"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />Got an A <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Remember the project was about learning how to search the internet and debunking fake and forged information. studies and research results. Not to determine what was the best adblocker. Adblocking was a perfect example for learning to research (because it has all the elements of topics which are easy targets for fake news influencing).</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">I hit the jackpot (according to feedback teacher)</span></span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Found a reliable source with large scale research which was relevant for the research question<br /> 100.000 'unwalled' webistes out of Alexa top 200.000 conducted by an organization related to reputable top grade Austrian universities </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Found the glitch in the research methodology <br /> All extensions were tested on default settings except Ghostery.</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">Found the surprising key finding<br /> Small expert based top-down blocklists are a little more effective than large community based bottem-up blocklists (less is more versus big is beautiful)</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Found the Achilles heel of both approaches</span></span><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Les is more weakness: Expert based top-down blocklist are less effective than community based bottem-up lists against ad and tracking networks with a presence of less than 20 websites in the Alexa top 200.000 (the graph showing 0-20 as uBlockOrigin being the winner, in the 20-200 prevalence graph Ghoster overtook uBlockOrigin and had a clear advantage in the 200+ prevalence results).</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Big is beautiful weakness: To fight the anti-adblock counter measures the community based ABP-syntax Adblockers develop increasingly complex syntax (like CSS and Scriptlet injection). The advanced CSS and super advanced Scriptlet sytax options require real IT-knowledge. Requiring more knowledge to write advanced blocking rules reduces the number of people who can contribute (they simply don't have that tech-knowledge). This probably negatively impacts the collective intelligence and rule writing (man)power of the community and as a result the (future) effectiveness of the blocklists made by this community.</span></span></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Best answer to research question<br /> The most effective Adblocking extensions probably are:</span></span><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px">Ghostery (winner with a nose length, representing the expert small blocklist players, but also using technology of the future, see advice)</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px">uBlockOrigin (currently the champion of the brute-force - community based - ABP-syntax blockers)</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px">PrivacyBadger (runner up and thought leader on heuristics based approach of the EFF) </span></li> </ol></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 12px">Conclusion and advice<br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Heuristics based blocking is probably the best way forward, considering that:</span></span><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Two studies showed that machine learning based adblocking is not around the corner yet (they need to be trained and training them with Easylist actually degraded their ability to determine most likely good or most likely bad with 40 to 60 percent depending on the ML-model)</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">My little field test in a small langauge area (Dutch language) with websites not in the Alexa top 200.000 showed that Ghostery was able to find new unlisted trackers (even in video ads hidden on a content delivery network). New Privacy badger also showed that it needs less training (than previous) versions) now it uses a blacklist (block all) - grey list (block cookies) and whitelist (allow) from the start. So the combo small expert list + behavior heuristics seems the best way forward (at this moment with current state of technology).</span></li> </ul></li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lenny_Fox, post: 843602, member: 82776"] [B][SIZE=7][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)](y)Got an A (y)[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Remember the project was about learning how to search the internet and debunking fake and forged information. studies and research results. Not to determine what was the best adblocker. Adblocking was a perfect example for learning to research (because it has all the elements of topics which are easy targets for fake news influencing).[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I hit the jackpot (according to feedback teacher)[/COLOR][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)] Found a reliable source with large scale research which was relevant for the research question 100.000 'unwalled' webistes out of Alexa top 200.000 conducted by an organization related to reputable top grade Austrian universities [/COLOR][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Found the glitch in the research methodology All extensions were tested on default settings except Ghostery.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [*][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Found the surprising key finding Small expert based top-down blocklists are a little more effective than large community based bottem-up blocklists (less is more versus big is beautiful)[/SIZE][/COLOR] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Found the Achilles heel of both approaches[/COLOR][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Les is more weakness: Expert based top-down blocklist are less effective than community based bottem-up lists against ad and tracking networks with a presence of less than 20 websites in the Alexa top 200.000 (the graph showing 0-20 as uBlockOrigin being the winner, in the 20-200 prevalence graph Ghoster overtook uBlockOrigin and had a clear advantage in the 200+ prevalence results).[/COLOR][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Big is beautiful weakness: To fight the anti-adblock counter measures the community based ABP-syntax Adblockers develop increasingly complex syntax (like CSS and Scriptlet injection). The advanced CSS and super advanced Scriptlet sytax options require real IT-knowledge. Requiring more knowledge to write advanced blocking rules reduces the number of people who can contribute (they simply don't have that tech-knowledge). This probably negatively impacts the collective intelligence and rule writing (man)power of the community and as a result the (future) effectiveness of the blocklists made by this community.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/LIST] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Best answer to research question The most effective Adblocking extensions probably are:[/COLOR][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][SIZE=3]Ghostery (winner with a nose length, representing the expert small blocklist players, but also using technology of the future, see advice)[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]uBlockOrigin (currently the champion of the brute-force - community based - ABP-syntax blockers)[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]PrivacyBadger (runner up and thought leader on heuristics based approach of the EFF) [/SIZE] [/LIST] [*][SIZE=3]Conclusion and advice [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Heuristics based blocking is probably the best way forward, considering that:[/COLOR][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Two studies showed that machine learning based adblocking is not around the corner yet (they need to be trained and training them with Easylist actually degraded their ability to determine most likely good or most likely bad with 40 to 60 percent depending on the ML-model)[/COLOR][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]My little field test in a small langauge area (Dutch language) with websites not in the Alexa top 200.000 showed that Ghostery was able to find new unlisted trackers (even in video ads hidden on a content delivery network). New Privacy badger also showed that it needs less training (than previous) versions) now it uses a blacklist (block all) - grey list (block cookies) and whitelist (allow) from the start. So the combo small expert list + behavior heuristics seems the best way forward (at this moment with current state of technology).[/SIZE] [/LIST] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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