Watch the replay for AFDS 2022

AFDS 2022 was a hybrid event with speakers from Meta, Opera, Google and many more.

Thank you to everyone who took part in making AFDS the industry event for ad-filtering and the possible future of web monetization.

Watch the replay

Next year's Ad-Filtering Dev Summit

When?

October 2023

Where?

to be announced

Replay AFDS Day 1

Replay AFDS Day 2

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Global State of Ad-Filtering Report

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Speakers

Ben Savage Software Engineer, Meta

Simeon Vincent Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Arjan van Leeuwen Product Engineering Lead, Opera

Arvind Narayanan Professor, Princeton University

Gertrud Kolb, Chief Technology and Product Officer, eyeo

Dr. Humera Noor Minhas Director of Engineering, eyeo

Rob Wu Browser Engineer, Mozilla Firefox & Webextensions

Franziska Rösner Associate Professor, University of Washington

Andrey Meshkov CTO and Co-Founder, Adguard

Udbhav Tiwari Senior Manager Global Public Policy , Mozilla

Parinitha Hirehal AI Product Manager, eyeo

Aurélien Mähl Senior Public Policy Manager, DuckDuckGo

Rotem Dar VP of Innovation, eyeo

Laura De Boel Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Ingo Rübe Founder, KILT Protocol

Eric Meyer Developer Advocate, Igalia

Terry Taouss President, Acceptable Ads Committee

Byungwoo Lee Software Engineer, Igalia

Cornelius Witt Group Data Protection Officer, eyeo

Felipe Erias Morandeira Software Engineer, Igalia

Peter Lowe Principal Security Researcher, DNSFilter

Anton Lazarev Engineer, Brave

Mohamed Morsy Product Manager, eyeo

Athanasios Andreou Researcher, Algorithmic Transparency Institute

Hieu Van Le PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine

Abdul Haddi Amjad PhD Candidate, Virginia Tech University

Umar Iqbal Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington

Victor Le Pochat PhD Candidate, KU Leuven

Shaoor Munir PhD Candidate, UC Davis

Schedule

Day 1

Time Slot	Speaker	Topic
10:00 - 10:25 CET	Gertrud Kolb CTPO, eyeo	Taking out the trash
10:25 - 10:30 CET	Kathrin Jennewein PR Manager, eyeo	Ad-Filtering Report Study Release
10:35 - 11:00 CET	Arjan van Leeuwen Product Engineering Lead, Opera	You broke the internet. When Content Filtering breaks a site and why it matters
11:05 - 11:45 CET	Andrey Meshkov CTO and Co-Founder, AdGuard	How bad is Manifest V3 exactly?
11:45 - 12:00 CET	Break
12:00 - 12:25 CET	Anton Lazarev Engineer, Brave	Content Blocking Collaboration in a Manifest V3 World
12.30 - 12:55 CET	Felipe Erias Morandeira Software Engineer, Igalia	More control over static filter rules
13:00 - 13:25 CET	Hieu Van Le PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine	AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking
13:30 - 14:30 CET	Lunch
14:30 - 14:55 CET	Simeon Vincent Developer Relations Engineer, Google Devlin Cronin Tech Lead Extensions Platform, Google David Li Product Manager Extensions Platform, Google Alexandre Blondin Lead Product Manager Extensions, Google Zach Warneke Software Engineer Chrome Web Store, Google	Notes from Chrome
15:00 - 15:25 CET	Mohamed Morsy Product Manager, eyeo	Feature Innovation through partner collaboration
15:25 - 15:45 CET	Break
15:45 - 16:25 CET	Dr. Humera Noor Minhas Director of Engineering, eyeo Parinitha Hirehal AI Product Manager, eyeo	ML-powered Anti-tracking: Track me if you can!
16:30 - 17:10 CET	Athanasios Andreou Researcher, Algorithmic Transparency Institute Victor Le Pochat imec-DistriNet, PhD Candidate, KU Leuven	An Audit of Facebook’s Political Ad Policy Enforcement
17:10 - 17:30 CET	Break
17:30 - 17:40 CET	Abdul Haddi Amjad PhD Candidate, Virginia Tech University	What's the next era of content blockers?
17:45 - 18:10 CET	Franziska Rösner Associate Professor, University of Washington	Shedding Light on Problematic Content in Online Ads
18:15 - 18:40 CET	Umar Iqbal Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington	Breaking Advertising and Tracking Request Chains

Day 2

Time Slot	Speaker	Topic
10:00 - 10:25 CET	Rotem Dar VP of Innovation, eyeo	Sustainable Privacy: Navigating between User Rights and the Web Economy
10:30 - 10:55 CET	Ben Savage Software Engineer, Meta	Building the internet we all want: Accurate ads measurement with no tracking
11:00 - 11:10 CET	Laura De Boel Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Intro into new regulations
11:10 - 12:00 CET	Laura De Boel Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Cornelius Witt Group Data Protection Officer, eyeo Udbhav Tiwari Senior Manager Global Public Policy, Mozilla Aurelien Maehl Senior Public Policy Manager, DuckDuckGo	Panel: How new regulations are shaking up adtech
12:00 - 13:00 CET	Lunch
13:00 - 13:25 CET	Ingo Rübe Founder, KILT Protocol	Web3: Regaining Control of Your Data
13:30 - 13:55 CET	Peter Lowe Principal Security Researcher, DNSFilter	The irony of blocking popular trackers People want privacy, but at what cost
14:00 - 15:10 CET	Break
15:15 - 15:40 CET	Shaoor Munir PhD Candidate, UC Davis	COOKIEGRAPH: Measuring and Countering First Party Tracking Cookies
15:45 - 16:25 CET	Byungwoo Lee Software Engineer, Igalia Eric Meyer Developer Advocate, Igalia	CSS Selector ':has()'
16:30 - 17:00 CET	Break
17:00 - 17:25 CET	Arvind Narayanan Professor, Princeton University	Keynote: Beyond ad filtering: five ideas for user empowerment through the browser
17:30 - 18:10 CET	Simeon Vincent Developer Relations Engineer, Google Devlin Cronin Tech Lead Extensions Platform, Google David Li Product Manager Extensions Platform, Google Alexandre Blondin Lead Product Manager Extensions, Google Zach Warneke Software Engineer Chrome Web Store, Google Rob Wu Browser Engineer, Mozilla Firefox, Webextensions	Browser Talk & Q&A
18:15 - 18:40 CET	Terry Taouss President, Acceptable Ads Committee	Final words

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