The Web has many types of third-party domains and has a variety of available ad blockers.
This work evaluates ad blocking tools for their effectiveness in blocking the retrieval of …

To protect user privacy, legislators have regulated the use of tracking technologies,
mandating the acquisition of users' consent before collecting data. As a result, websites …

Digital society has developed to a point where it is nearly impossible for a user to know what
it is happening in the background when using the Internet. To understand it, it is necessary …

This paper aims to understand how third-party ecosystems have developed in four different
countries: UK, China, AU, US. We are interested in how wide a view a given third-party …

Given the pervasiveness of web tracking practices on the Internet, many countries are
develo** and enforcing new privacy regulations to ensure the rights of their citizens …

The Internet has witnessed the proliferation of applications and services that rely on HTTP
as application protocol. Users play games, read emails, watch videos, chat and access web …

In recent years, privacy issues in the networking field are getting more important. In
particular, there is a lively debate about how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should collect …

Shortest path routing is the type of routing widely used in computer networks nowadays.
Even though shortest path routing algorithms are well established, other alternative methods …

Within the current Internet ecosystem, websites often include trackers–pieces of code that
monitor user navigation patterns and collect personal information. Various existing studies …

The loading of resources from third-parties has evoked new security and privacy concerns
about the current world wide web. Building on the concepts of forced and implicit trust, this …