ad-detector

I think the post gives the wrong impression that I work nonstop. I write very little code for Textbelt, Asterank, and Inflation nowadays as they are in maintenance mode (bugfixes, minor features, SEO tweaks, responding to pull requests). Textbelt in particular has benefitted from open source contributions. Some of the projects are deceptively small. For example, core logic for Asteroid Viewer is less than 200 lines, AdDetector less than 80 [1][2]. I would be surprised if I wrote more than 5k lines of real code this year on the side or more than 10 hrs/wk average, though I tend to work in bursts, not uniformly throughout the year. [1] https://github.com/typpo/ast3d/blob/master/main.js [2] https://github.com/typpo/ad-detector/blob/master/src/inject....

Thanks for the feedback. The chrome/firefox pages have user reviews but there aren't many of them. I was sensitive to performance when I wrote it - in most cases detection rules are single selectors. It won't run anything on sites not in the db. No library dependencies. There's a phantomjs test suite that flags false positives and negatives. Of course, I can't personally compile a list of every site with sponsored content, so if it's not on the list the addon won't display anything. If you're interested, the code is open source at http://github.com/typpo/ad-detector. Hard for me to say whether it can spot ads that you can't. Many people think they aren't susceptible to ads like these, and I'm one of them, but I built this for peace of mind. Sponsored content can be easy to miss. My favorite examples are this Yahoo news article on c

It looks like it's just a set of rules for major sites rather than some heuristic applied to all sites. But since it's open source, contributing rules for more obscure sites should be easy. Source here: https://github.com/typpo/ad-detector/blob/master/src/rules.j...

you can read the logic here: https://github.com/typpo/ad-detector/blob/master/src/rules.j...