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.
Next year's Ad-Filtering Dev Summit
When?
October 2023
Where?
to be announced
Replay AFDS Day 1
Replay AFDS Day 2
Global State of Ad-Filtering Report
Check out our latest ad-filtering report featuring industry trends, challenges, opportunities and a future outlook backed up by research and contributions from industry experts.
Speakers

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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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