Today, a web browser plays a crucial role in offering a broad spectrum of web experiences.
The most popular browser, Chromium, has become an extremely complex application to …

Service workers are a powerful technology supported by all major modern browsers that can
improve users' browsing experience by offering capabilities similar to those of native …

The rapid growth of online advertising has fueled the growth of ad-blocking software, such
as new ad-blocking and privacy-oriented browsers or browser extensions. In response, both …

In today's web ecosystem, a website that uses a Content Delivery Network (CDN) shares its
Transport Layer Security (TLS) private key or session key with the CDN. In this paper, we …

Nowadays, modern websites are utilizing service workers to provide users with app-like
functionalities such as offline mode and push notifications. To handle such features, the …

Intermediary web services such as web proxies, web translators, and web archives have
become pervasive as a means to enhance the openness of the web. These services aim to …

Modern browsers give access to several attributes that can be collected to form a browser
fingerprint. Although browser fingerprints have primarily been studied as a web tracking tool …

Service workers boost the user experience of modern web applications by taking advantage
of the Cache API to improve responsiveness and support offline usage. In this paper, we …

Browser fingerprinting consists into collecting attributes from a web browser. Hundreds of
attributes have been discovered through the years. Each one of them provides a way to …

The powerful capabilities of modern browsers have pushed the web application logic to the
user side, in order to minimize latency, increase scalability of the service and improve users' …