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A great idea, thanks. A suggestion: If you could post it someplace that allows user reviews, I'd be much more likely to download it. It's hard to tell if it wil

A great idea, thanks. A suggestion: If you could post it someplace that allows user reviews, I'd be much more likely to download it. It's hard to tell if it will cause performance problems, installs/uninstalls well, false-positive/negative rates, identifies advertorials that I wouldn't find on my own, etc. I could try it, but there are many, many add-ons to try! That said, I hope it works well and becomes widely used. The publishers should be putting that alert on their pages themselves.

typpo 12y ago
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 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 climate change (written by an oil company), and a Newsweek article on personal injury lawyers: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cooling-real-inconvenient-truth-140500879.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cooling-real-inconveni... [2] http://www.newsweek.com/10-best-personal-injury-attorneys http://www.newsweek.com/10-best-personal-injury-attorneys