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Bfilter - heuristic ad detection algorithm

 
 
Aaron
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      24th Aug 2003

http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/changelog.php


"BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for
removing banner ads only, but at some point it has been extended to
remove popups and webbugs. It can't be used as a general purpose
filtering proxy because it was never intended this way. For example you
can't just block an arbitary object, you can only hint the ad detector in
its decision making.

The main advantage BFilter has over the similar tools is its heuristic ad
detection algorithm. The traditional blocklist-based approach is also
implemented, but it's mostly used for dealing with false positives.
Unlike other tools that require constant updates of their blocklists,
BFilter manages to remove over 90% of ads even with an empty blocklist!"



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