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Show HN: I built a AI powered ad blocker that runs entirely in browser

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Re: Show HN: I built a AI powered ad blocker that runs entirely in browser

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This is super cool. Tangentially related, I made Ward which analyzes harmful ads: https://tryward.app Blocking them altogether is definitely an elegant solution.

How are you determing if a ad is harmful

I have a 2-stage agent that analyzes all of the DOM content (including pop up ads). If anything remotely resembles a scam, it passes the DOM content to a second “judge” LLM that’s more powerful and has a ton of criteria for top scam techniques.

The goal of the 2 stage agent is to prevent resource consumption when something isn’t a scam/harmful, and reduce false positives by doing a second pass if something flags.

Re: Show HN: I built a AI powered ad blocker that runs entirely in browser

#5

This is super cool. Tangentially related, I made Ward which analyzes harmful ads: https://tryward.app Blocking them altogether is definitely an elegant solution.

How are you determing if a ad is harmful

I’m currently not detecting content from scripts though, just raw HTML at the moment. Good thinking on your side for doing that, I’m gonna throw it in my backlog.