Casino Blocker is a tool designed to help individuals avoid online gambling sites, especially beneficial for those seeking to overcome gambling addictions. It uses a bag of words model and a random forest classifier to identify and block casino websites.
The project was initiated to block gambling sites not usually covered by standard blocklists, with a focus on multi-lingual sites, and to address the issue of frequently changing URLs. Casino Blocker operates by allowing only pre-approved websites, with a feature for dynamically analyzing and blocking harmful sites.
A novel, publicly accessible dataset, comprising 1,000 instances of website text, was created for this project, with each instance manually labeled as belonging to one of two categories: 'gambling site' or 'regular site'. This dataset was sourced from blocklists and government-blocked casino lists.
- Parental Controls: On iOS, enable parental controls to block all websites except certain specified ones.
- Permitted URL: Add 'casino.regevson.com' as a permitted URL.
- Lock Settings: Have a friend lock these settings with a code unknown to you.
- Website Analysis: Paste URLs into the search bar on casino.regevson.com. Websites are downloaded to the server for display and background analysis.
- Blocking: If a site is classified as harmful, it's blocked.
- Clone the repository.
- Install required Python packages.
- Run
uvicorn casino:app --reload.
- Classifier: We experimented with SVM, logistic regression, and random forest classifiers using a bag of words model. The random forest classifier emerged as the most effective, offering an accuracy of 95%.
- Backend: Implemented with FastAPI for easy server-side development.
- Frontend: Developed using standard HTML/CSS/JS.
- Website Download: Utilizes wget for downloading website content.
- JavaScript Support: The system does not support JavaScript, affecting the functionality of some sites.
- Speed: The process is slower than regular browsing due to the need to download websites for analysis.
- Manual Enabling: Sites relying heavily on JavaScript may require manual enabling in the settings.
- Enhance the classifier with advanced NLP techniques.
- Explore solutions for JavaScript compatibility.
- Improve processing speed for a more seamless browsing experience.
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Q: What to do if a legitimate website is blocked?
- A: Manually add the website to the allowed list in your parental control settings.
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Q: What should I do if the website is not loading properly?
- A: The website most likely relies on JavaScript and at the moment this poses a problem. Please manually add the website to the allowed list in your parental control settings.