AI AdBlocker

This add-on is a starter AI Ad Block extension. • The uploaded .zip is the Firefox-compatible build (no rules/ directory, uses background.scripts instead of service_worker). • The uploaded source .zip contains the full, human-readable source code (TypeScript, scripts, manifests, build files) without dist/ or node_modules/. • No remote code execution, dynamic code generation, or obfuscated code is used. • Can detect hidden ads, sponsored labels, promoted posts, native ads that rule-based systems miss. • Can adapt better if you re-train the model with new data. Example AI Features You Can Add DOM / Heuristic Classifier: Train a lightweight ML model on HTML snippets (features: tag type, attributes, text like “Sponsored”). Content script grabs candidate nodes → runs model → hide if classified as ad. Vision-based Ad Detection: Use a small CNN (e.g., MobileNet/ONNX quantized) to check if an <img> looks like a banner ad. Useful for “image-only” ads where markup doesn’t give them away. Hybrid (most practical): Use heuristics to filter likely candidates (divs with fixed size, suspicious classes, “sponsored” text). Use ML to confirm → avoid false positives. Future-proofing: when advertisers obfuscate HTML/CSS, rules break → but your ML model still generalizes. Privacy-preserving: everything runs locally in the browser; no need to send page data to servers. Research value: positions your extension as “next-gen” ad blocker, different from commodity ones.