Blocking online advertising - a state of the art

Online advertising has emerged as one of the major business models on the Internet. Publishers rely on the online revenue generated from advertising to offer many free services. However it has become evident that online advertisements are now becoming quite intrusive and also consume a lot of valuab...

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Main Authors: Singh, A., Potdar, Vidyasagar
Other Authors: Yousef Ibrahim
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2009
Online Access:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1586169
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30976
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description Online advertising has emerged as one of the major business models on the Internet. Publishers rely on the online revenue generated from advertising to offer many free services. However it has become evident that online advertisements are now becoming quite intrusive and also consume a lot of valuable bandwidth to download zero-caching ads and flash or video ads. The main contribution of this paper is as follows; it attempts to identify the main reasons why internet users want to block online ads, it also critically evaluates several existing ad-blocking techniques and conducts an experiment to measure the amount of bandwidth used by online advertisements relative to the actual content. Near the end of the paper a brief discussion on probable future researches open a vast new region to be explored.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-309762017-10-02T02:27:38Z Blocking online advertising - a state of the art Singh, A. Potdar, Vidyasagar Yousef Ibrahim Online advertising has emerged as one of the major business models on the Internet. Publishers rely on the online revenue generated from advertising to offer many free services. However it has become evident that online advertisements are now becoming quite intrusive and also consume a lot of valuable bandwidth to download zero-caching ads and flash or video ads. The main contribution of this paper is as follows; it attempts to identify the main reasons why internet users want to block online ads, it also critically evaluates several existing ad-blocking techniques and conducts an experiment to measure the amount of bandwidth used by online advertisements relative to the actual content. Near the end of the paper a brief discussion on probable future researches open a vast new region to be explored. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30976 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1586169 IEEE fulltext
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Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
title Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
title_full Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
title_fullStr Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
title_full_unstemmed Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
title_short Blocking online advertising - a state of the art
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url http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1586169
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30976