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AdVersa: Adversarially-Robust and Practical Ad and Tracker Blocking in the Wild

https://github.com/SKKU-SecLab/AdVersa
1•grac3•3h ago

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While machine learning has significantly advanced ad and tracker detection, existing systems face critical challenges in practice. They are vulnerable to adversarial attacks (57-92% evasion rates), fail to generalize to unseen domains due to data contamination, and suffer performance degradation over time, requiring costly retraining. To address these challenges, we present AdVersa, a client-side framework for robust and practical ad and tracker blocking. AdVersa leverages novel, hard-to-perturb latent features from code and URL embeddings to deliver state-of-the-art performance. On a 2.74M-request dataset, our results show that AdVersa achieves a 98.23% F1 score, twice the robustness against adversarial attacks, and strong generalization to unseen domains (91.47% F1 score). For sustainable protection, we demonstrate that a low-cost pseudo-labeling strategy can maintain near-optimal accuracy, reducing maintenance overhead by over 99.8% compared to filter-list curation. Finally, we implement AdVersa as a lightweight, standalone client-side application that ensures user privacy by operating without external dependencies.

Self-Healing Back End That Does TDD

https://88hours.github.io/helix-community/
1•NomiJ•16s ago•1 comments

A section of Apple's website for OS X El Capitan that's still up in 2026

https://www.apple.com/ca/osx/whats-new/
1•0x70run•42s ago•0 comments

Hyde on X: "You can't afford to live a normal life" / X

https://twitter.com/BreatheLesss/status/2043998565773504552
1•bilsbie•2m ago•0 comments

Critical flaw in WolfSSL library enables forged certificate use

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-flaw-in-wolfssl-library-enables-forged-ce...
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Steam market intelligence reports via Claude (30 pages, 2 min)

https://gameagent.co
1•xhulz•5m ago•0 comments

I made a website where you escape the website

https://www.escapethewebsite.com
4•ChickenOrEgg•6m ago•0 comments

Macs Since 1983

https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-mac
1•baal80spam•6m ago•0 comments

Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs

https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/business/oracle-accused-of-targeting-employees-with-stock-options-i...
2•conqrr•8m ago•0 comments

US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-14/us-treasury-seeking-access-to-anthropic-s-myth...
1•helsinkiandrew•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenParallax: OS-level privilege separation for AI agent execution

1•stackframe•9m ago•0 comments

Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, Second Edition (2025)

https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol105/iss1/1/
1•throw0101a•9m ago•0 comments

Standing on the Shoulders of Homebrew

https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/14/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-homebrew.html
1•angristan•9m ago•0 comments

My brother's minesweeper site (minesweeper.org) has been running for 27 years

https://restlessforge.substack.com/p/sweeping-for-mines
3•restlessforge•9m ago•0 comments

I built a safer XChat download page (too many shady sites)

https://xchatdownload.net/
1•RyanMu•9m ago•1 comments

Book review: The 'crazy rule-defying' genes that determine sex

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01101-x
1•sohkamyung•10m ago•0 comments

Lighter, Not Faster

https://digitalseams.com/blog/lighter-not-faster
1•bobbiechen•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: At 'Em – Daily briefing app showing your schedule, weather, and tasks

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/at-em/id6758867441
1•tdhoward•11m ago•1 comments

AI feels like a drug (from a designer)

https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/ai-feels-like-a-drug
1•pablostanley•13m ago•0 comments

Reduced timing overhead for EXPLAIN ANALYZE with RDTSC in Postgres 19

https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-19-reduced-timing-overhead-explain-analyze
1•tanelpoder•13m ago•0 comments

I built a daily AI check-in call service for elderly parents living alone

https://seniorcheckin.app/
1•fjzll•14m ago•0 comments

Open Letter to UK Energy Suppliers: Standing Charges Must Be Transparent

https://www.jonathantracey.com/openletter
1•DamonHD•15m ago•0 comments

Policy enforcement in AI systems: turning governance into runtime control

https://heavythoughtcloud.com/knowledge/policy-enforcement-in-ai-systems
1•ryan-s•16m ago•0 comments

I quit: the difference in difficulty between Japanese and Chinese is ridiculous

https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapaneseNovice/comments/1sfvt9l/i_quit_the_difference_in_difficulty...
2•eatonphil•16m ago•0 comments

The Iran war took a toll on the Air Force's Reaper fleet

https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/air-force-reaper-drone-fleet/
1•ilamont•16m ago•0 comments

Agent Skills for Software Test Automation

2•kavyan•17m ago•0 comments

Keywords are dead. Traffic can't tell you what AI thinks of your brand

https://www.spotlight.cx/blog/keywords-are-dead
1•soorajsanker•18m ago•1 comments

The skill that feels inefficient and drives everything else

https://thenowtonext.substack.com/p/the-skill-that-feels-inefficient
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)

4•Kathan2651•19m ago•1 comments

How to Build Your Second Brain

https://twitter.com/NickSpisak_/status/2040448463540830705
1•gmays•19m ago•0 comments

The Simple Geometry Behind Any Road

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/simple-geometry-of-roads/
2•Ef996•19m ago•0 comments