AdCPG: Classifying JavaScript Code Property Graphs with Explanations for Ad and Tracker Blocking
Changmin Lee, Sooel Son · 2023
Advertising and tracking service (ATS) blocking has been safeguarding the privacy of millions of Internet users from privacy-invasive tracking behaviors. Previous research has proposed using a graph representation that models the structural relationships in loading web resources and then conducting ATS node classification based on this graph representation. However, these context-based ATS classification methods suffer from (1) inconsistent classification due to the varying context in which ATS resources are loaded and (2) a lack of explainability of the classification results, making it difficult to identify the code-level causes for ATS classification.