Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Alexander Sjösten, Peter Snyder, Antonio Pastor, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Benjamin Livshits · 2020
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting web users. The vast majority of popular filter lists are crowd-sourced, where a large number of people manually label resources related to undesirable web resources (e.g. ads, trackers, paywall libraries), so that they can be blocked by browsers and extensions.