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Detect news articles paid for by advertisers.

Latest Version

Version

0.0.19

Update

June 17, 2015

Size

25.2KiB

Developer

ianww.com

AdDetector Extension

AdDetector spots articles with corporate sponsors.

It puts a big banner on top of any article that may appear unbiased at first glance, but is actually paid for by an advertiser. The goal of this extension to increase corporate transparency for internet users.

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\"Native advertising\" is a method of advertising that presents ads as journalism or unbiased articles.

This technique is used by publications like the New York Times, The Atlantic, Gawker, Buzzfeed, and others. Stories may be marked as sponsored, but disclaimers are subtle because the whole point is that users don't know it's an ad.

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This extension requires permission to run on pages you visit, but your data is never used, stored, or transmitted. For those who wish to contribute or audit, AdDetector is open source: http://github.com/typpo/ad-detector

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "AdDetector", "version": "0.0.19", "manifest_version": 2, "description": "Detect news articles paid for by advertisers.", "homepage_url": "http://ianww.com/ad-detector", "icons": { "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "default_locale": "en", "permissions": [ "https://*/*", "http://*/*" ], "web_accessible_resources": [ "src/rules.js", "src/inject.js" ], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "https://*/*", "http://*/*" ], "js": [ "src/main.js" ], "css": [ "src/inject.css" ] } ]}

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User reviews

Stop Using This Account (ID: 000000330f8e209e) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 12/18/2017 Doesn't work on Forbes BrandVoice.

Enrico (ID: 000000184785921d) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/05/2017 Seems like a good ideia, but it's not working for me. I entered in those articles in the pictures to test it out and nothing changed. No banner.

Simon Stackmann (ID: 000000528d41f38e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/24/2016 great idea, like South park's Jimmy in its amazing parody of sponsored content.

max akimov (Maxилач) (ID: 00000086d8031cb8) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 04/17/2016 Показывает время прибывания продавца на площадке и количество жалоб на него. В остальном ничего особенного. Через несколько месяцев пользования, переходя по страницам Алиэкспресс, антивирус стал уведомлять об угрозе и перестали отображаться отзывы пользователей о заказах(((

Larry Goltry (ID: 00000042e2e64828) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/22/2016 Works great! A big help to reveal hidden agenda's. I always add this one to Chrome.

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AdDetector