As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Context: A large part of the software produced by many companies and organizations today
are web applications. Testing web applications is vital to ensure and maintain the quality of …

Web measurement studies can shed light on not yet fully understood phenomena and thus
are essential for analyzing how the modern Web works. This often requires building new …

Browser fingerprinting continues to proliferate across the web. Critically, popular
fingerprinting libraries have started incorporating extension-fingerprinting capabilities, thus …

In this work, we inspect different data sources for browser fingerprints. We show which
disadvantages and limitations browser statistics have and how this can be avoided with …

As the web keeps increasing in size, the number of vulnerable and poorly-managed
websites increases commensurately. Attackers rely on armies of malicious bots to discover …

Browser fingerprinting aims to identify users or their devices, through scripts that execute in
the users' browser and collect information on software or hardware characteristics. It is used …

Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web
privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers …

Given the ever-increasing number of malicious bots scouring the web, many websites are
turning to specialized services that advertise their ability to detect bots and block them. In …

Browser fingerprints, while traditionally being used for web tracking, have recently been
adopted more and more often for defense or detection of various attacks targeting realworld …