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2025. Limassol

Day 1

Opening note — Caroline Hill (eyeo)

System-wide ad blocking on Apple Devices — Andrey Meshkov (AdGuard)

What’s new in Chrome — Oliver Dunk, Devlin Cronin (Google)

From Manual Rules to AI Automation: Scaling Cookie Popup Protection at DuckDuckGo — Maxim Tsoy (DuckDuckGo)

Light-Side UX: How AdGuard Communicates Privacy — Sofia Orlova (AdGuard)

Porting desktop ABP to mobile Safari — Toni Feliu (eyeo)

The Creator Economy’s False Choice: Privacy vs. Supporting Art — Henry Fisher (Techlore)

Agents Need Adblocking, Too — Anton Lazarev (Brave)

The impact of ad filtering on performance marketing in 2025 and 2026 — Aleksei Terekhov (MitGo)

Inside AGLint v4: A Developer – Contributor – User perspective on linting adblock filters — Elizaveta Egorova, Dávid Tóta (AdGuard)

Stealthy Fingerprinting Users with personalized blocking rules — Saiid El Hajj Chehade (EPFL)

Browser panel — Tina Chenska (Opera), Anton Lazarev (Brave), Rob Wu (Mozilla), Devlin Cronin (Google), Sam MacBeth (DuckDuckGo). Moderated by Krzysztof Modras (Ghostery)

Day 2

Welcome to day two — Caroline Hill (eyeo)

How do we know it’s working? Proving adblockers Production Health — Aga Czyżewska (eyeo)

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android — Aniketh Girish (IMDEA)

Ghostery TrackerDB — Philipp Claßen (Ghostery)

Filtering Bad Ads using LLM Assisted AdBlocking — Ritik Roongta (New York University)

Enhancing Ad Blocker Quality Assurance Using AI — Tina Chenska (Opera)

Automating Ad commits — Ryan Brown (Brave)

Tales from Blocklist Maintenance — Peter Lowe (FIRST)

Local Frames: Exploiting Inherited Origins to Bypass Content Blockers — Anton Lazarev (Brave) presenting for Alisha Ukani (UC San Diego)

Beyond Filter Lists: Using LLMs to Rethink Ad Blocking — Maxim Topciu (AdGuard)

Collaborative Paths to Privacy Enhancing Advertising — Leigh Freund, NAI & Alex Cone (Google)

Beyond the Surface: Uncovering Hidden Threats in Online Ads — Mohamed Elgendi (Malwarebytes)

Filter maintainers panel  Peter Lowe (FIRST), Ryan Brown (Brave), David Tota (AdGuard), Elizaveta Egorova (AdGuard), Sam Macbeth (DuckDuckGo). Moderated by Andrey Meshkov (AdGuard)

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