The privacy threats of online tracking have garnered considerable attention in recent years
from researchers and practitioners. This has resulted in users becoming more …

The management of many different login credentials can be tricky for the average web user.
OAuth eases this process by invoking identity providers (IdPs) as intermediaries, which …

Request chains are being used by advertisers and trackers for information sharing and
circumventing recently introduced privacy protections in web browsers. There is little prior …

Third-party web tracking is a common, and broadly used technique on the Web. Almost
every step of users' is tracked, analyzed, and later used in different use cases (eg, online …

This research investigates the ethical and privacy issues arising from using AI andML in
neuromarketing, framed by rule utilitarianism. It assesses the impact of these technologies …

This work presents a systematic study of UID smuggling, an emerging tracking technique
that is designed to evade browsers' privacy protections. Browsers are increasingly …

Automated browsers are widely used to study the web at scale. Their premise is that they
measure what regular browsers would encounter on the web. In practice, deviations due to …

We analyze in depth and longitudinally how Facebook's cookie-based tracking behavior and
its communication about tracking have evolved from 2015 to 2022. More stringent …

ÐModern web browsers constitute complex application platforms with a wide range of APIs
and features. Critically, this includes a multitude of heterogeneous mechanisms that allow …

We present the first extensive measurement of the privacy properties of the advertising
systems used by privacy-focused search engines. We propose an automated methodology …