Though web tracking and its privacy implications have received much attention in recent
years, that attention has come relatively recently in the history of the web and lacks full …

In this paper, we quantify the effectiveness of third-party tracker blockers on a large scale.
First, we analyze the architecture of various state-of-the-art blocking solutions and discuss …

User demand for blocking advertising and tracking online is large and growing. Existing
tools, both deployed and described in research, have proven useful, but lack either the …

Online tracking poses a serious privacy challenge that has drawn significant attention in
both academia and industry. Existing approaches for preventing user tracking, based on …

In order to improve mobile data transparency, various approaches have been proposed to
inspect network traffic generated by mobile devices and detect exposure of personally …

Online tracking is a whack-a-mole game between trackers who build and monetize
behavioral user profiles through intrusive data collection, and anti-tracking mechanisms …

Although advertising is a popular strategy for mobile app monetization, it is often desirable to
block ads in order to improve usability, performance, privacy, and security. In this paper, we …

We present a systematic study of ad blocking-and the associated" arms race"-as a security
problem. We model ad blocking as a state space with four states and six state transitions …

Abstract “Tracking” is the collection of data about an individual's activity across multiple
distinct contexts and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside …

Tracking is pervasive on the web. Third party trackers acquire user data through information
leak from websites, and user browsing history using cookies and device fingerprinting. In …