FilterPlus: A real-time content filtering extension for Google Chrome
This addresses the issue of browser-based attacks and vulnerabilities for general web users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing extension-based filtering methods.
The paper tackled the problem of tedious content filtering in web browsers by developing FilterPlus, a Google Chrome extension that allows users to easily control and block elements like JavaScript, cookies, and popups for enhanced protection, with the result being a tool that remembers user choices per URL to create personalized website rules.
Content filtering in web browsers is a tedious process for most of the people, because of several reasons. By blocking JavaScript, Cookies and Popups, end users can ensure maximum protection from browser based attacks and vulnerabilities. In order to accomplish this, we build an extension for Google Chrome which allows users to have easy control over what they wish to recievce from a web page. We also build this extension in such a way that it remembers the choice of options made by the user for every URLs, thereby letting users create rules for websites they visit.