FilterPlus: A real-time content filtering extension for Google Chrome

TL;DR

FilterPlus is a real-time Chrome extension that enables users to easily control and customize content filtering, such as blocking JavaScript, cookies, and popups, with personalized rules for each website to enhance security.

Contribution

This paper introduces a Chrome extension that simplifies content filtering with user-specific rules and persistent preferences, improving browser security and user control.

Findings

Effective blocking of JavaScript, cookies, and popups

User preferences are remembered for each URL

Enhanced security through customizable filtering

Abstract

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.