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Could you create checksums/signatures of ad videos/banners then add the signatures to the distributed block-list? I guess the next step would be to automatical
by icanhackit 11y ago
Could you create checksums/signatures of ad videos/banners then add the signatures to the distributed block-list?
I guess the next step would be to automatically add noise/tiny amendments to the content to get around the checksum...but then you could use object/character recognition to identify content and block the ads based on that.
- seiji 11y agoYou're looking for perceptual hashing: http://www.phash.org http://www.phash.org
- chrischen 11y agoAt this point the CPU resources consumed hashing every image from a website will probably outweigh the cost of just displaying the ads (since they are downloaded anyways).
- icanhackit 11y agoWould hashing every image be much more resource intensive than rendering the images? Images would only need to be hashed once whereas images need to be rendered in various states at ~60Hz when a user scrolls through a website.