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CV-Inspector: Given a set of sites, it automates the crawling, data collection, differential analysis, and labeling of the sites for circumvention of adblockers

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CV-Inspector

Given a set of sites, CV-Inspector will automate the crawling, data collection, differential analysis, and labeling of the sites.

  • Label 1 = the site was able to circumvent the adblocker
  • Label 0 = the site was not successful at circumventing the adblocker or it did not attempt at circumvention

CV-Inspector was developed and used in the paper: CV-Inspector: Towards Automating Detection of Adblock Circumvention.

We refer to the paper for more details.

Visit our CV-Inspector Project page for more information, including datasets that we utilized in the paper.

Datasets

Visit our CV-Inspector Dataset page for more information.

Citation

If you create a publication (including web pages, papers published by a third party, and publicly available presentations) using CV-Inspector, please cite the corresponding paper as follows:

@inproceedings{le2021cvinspector,
  title={{CV-Inspector: Towards Automating Detection of Adblock Circumvention}},
  author={Le, Hieu and Markopoulou, Athina and Shafiq, Zubair},
  booktitle={The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)},
  url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2021.24055},
  doi = {10.14722/ndss.2021.24055},
  year={2021}
}

Contact

We also encourage you to provide us ([email protected]) with a link to your publication. We use this information in reports to our funding agencies.

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

For quick use, you can use our AMI that has CV-Inspector set up already using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.

Setting up CV-Inspector Yourself

If you want to set up your own environment, see the README_selfsetup.md.

Dependencies

  • CV-Inspector Adblock Plus Chrome Extension: A custom version of Adblock Plus Chrome extension to annotate the page source
  • npm: To build chrome extensions
  • mongodb: To save intermediate data collected
  • chromedriver78: The ChromeDriver for Selenium (version 78)
  • Python 3.6+: CV-Inspector is built on top on Python 3.6
  • setup.py: List of Python packages

Terminology

Throughout the code and datasets, you may see the following terms:

  • control: This commonly means the case for "No Adblocker"
  • variant: This commonly means the case for "With Adblocker"
  • crawl_group_name: Some unique identifier that holds together all data collected within one call of cvinspector_monitor.

License

CV-Inspector is licensed under Apache-2.0 License.

Acknowledgements

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