The effect of nudges and boosts on browsing privacy in a naturalistic environment

AM Ortloff, S Zimmerman, D Elsweiler… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
During everyday web browsing and search users reveal many pieces of private information
to third parties. Even though people report being concerned about their privacy online, they …

Privacy nudging in search: Investigating potential impacts

S Zimmerman, A Thorpe, C Fox… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
From their impacts to potential threats, privacy and misinformation are a recurring top news
story. Social media platforms (eg Facebook) and information retrieval (IR) systems (eg …

Away from prying eyes: Analyzing usage and understanding of private browsing

H Habib, J Colnago, V Gopalakrishnan… - … symposium on usable …, 2018 - usenix.org
Previous research has suggested that people use the private browsing mode of their web
browsers to conduct privacy-sensitive activities online, but have misconceptions about how it …

Nudges (and deceptive patterns) for privacy: six years later

A Acquisti, I Adjerid, L Brandimarte… - … Handbook of Privacy …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
In 2017, we published in ACM Computing Surveys a review of the rapidly expanding field of
research on behavioral hurdles and nudges in privacy and information security. In this …

Your secrets are safe: How browsers' explanations impact misconceptions about private browsing mode

Y Wu, P Gupta, M Wei, Y Acar, S Fahl, B Ur - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
All major web browsers include a private browsing mode that does not store browsing
history, cookies, or temporary files across browsing sessions. Unfortunately, users have …

Why johnny fails to protect his privacy

N Gerber, V Zimmermann… - 2019 IEEE European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Albeit people worldwide cry out for the protection of their privacy, they often fail to
successfully protect their private data. Possible reasons for this failure that have been …

User attitudes towards browsing data collection

LN Lee, R Chow, AM Rashid - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Web browsing data is the foundation of online advertising and can also be used to
understand behavioral patterns of web users. This data, however, has also been the source …

[PDF][PDF] Overconfidence: Personal behaviors regarding privacy that allows the leakage of information in private browsing mode

R Ruiz, FP Amatte, KJB Park, R Winter - International Journal of Cyber …, 2015 - Citeseer
A growing concern of users about confidentiality and privacy in web related tasks presses
companies to present more secure solutions that respect the right to individual privacy …

Using the Dual-Privacy Framework to Understand Consumers' Perceived Privacy Violations Under Different Firm Practices in Online Advertising

K Jerath, KM Miller - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03612, 2024 - arxiv.org
In response to privacy concerns about collecting and using personal data, the online
advertising industry has been developing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), eg, under …

Privacy limitations of interest-based advertising on the web: A post-mortem empirical analysis of google's floc

A Berke, D Calacci - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In 2020, Google announced it would disable third-party cookies in the Chrome browser to
improve user privacy. In order to continue to enable interest-based advertising while …