2 papers
cs.CY2026
Inconsistencies in Classification of Online News Articles: A Call for Common Standards in Brand Safety Services
Michael Smith, Riley Grossman, Antonio Torres-Aguero +3
This study examines inconsistencies in the brand safety classifications of online news articles by analyzing ratings from three leading brand safety providers, DoubleVerify, Integr…
cs.CY2025
Using Salient Object Detection to Identify Manipulative Cookie Banners that Circumvent GDPR
Riley Grossman, Michael Smith, Cristian Borcea +1
The main goal of this paper is to study how often cookie banners that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contain aesthetic manipulation, a design tactic to d…