Browser extension fingerprinting has garnered considerable attention recently due to the
twofold privacy loss that it incurs. Apart from facilitating tracking by augmenting browser …

Past privacy measurement studies on web tracking focused on high-ranked commercial
websites, as user tracking is extensively used for monetization on those sites. Conversely …

Online tracking has garnered significant attention due to the privacy risk it poses to users.
Among the various approaches, techniques that identify which extensions are installed in a …

Google recently announced plans to phase out third-party cookies and is currently in the
process of rolling out the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, a collection of APIs and web standards …

Browser fingerprinting remains a topic of particular interest for both the research community
and the browser ecosystem, and various anti-fingerprinting countermeasures have been …

Stateful and stateless web tracking gathered much attention in the last decade, however
they were always measured separately. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to …

Browsers and extensions that aim to block online ads and tracking scripts predominantly rely
on rules from filter lists for determining which resource requests must be blocked. These filter …

While JavaScript established itself as a cornerstone of the modern web, it also constitutes a
major tracking and security vector, thus raising critical privacy and security concerns. In this …

Browser-based cross-platform applications have become increasingly popular as they allow
software vendors to sidestep two major issues in the app ecosystem. First, web apps can be …

Since its creation, Certificate Transparency (CT) has served as a vital component of the
secure web. However, with the increase in TLS adoption, CT has essentially become a …