Apps, trackers, privacy, and regulators: A global study of the mobile tracking ecosystem

A Razaghpanah, R Nithyanand… - The 25th Annual …, 2018 - dspace.networks.imdea.org
Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they ease application
development and enable features such as analytics, social network integration, and app …

A long way to the top: Significance, structure, and stability of internet top lists

Q Scheitle, O Hohlfeld, J Gamba, J Jelten… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network
security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists …

Watching you watch: The tracking ecosystem of over-the-top tv streaming devices

H Mohajeri Moghaddam, G Acar, B Burgess… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The number of Internet-connected TV devices has grown significantly in recent years,
especially Over-the-Top (" OTT") streaming devices, such as Roku TV and Amazon Fire TV …

Measuring the impact of the GDPR on data sharing in ad networks

T Urban, D Tatang, M Degeling, T Holz… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May
2018, brought new rules for the processing of personal data that affect many business …

Mystique: Uncovering information leakage from browser extensions

Q Chen, A Kapravelos - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Browser extensions are small JavaScript, CSS and HTML programs that run inside the
browser with special privileges. These programs, often written by third parties, operate on …

Doublex: Statically detecting vulnerable data flows in browser extensions at scale

A Fass, DF Somé, M Backes, B Stock - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Browser extensions are popular to enhance users' browsing experience. By design, they
have access to security-and privacy-critical APIs to perform tasks that web applications …

I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking

S Englehardt, J Han, A Narayanan - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2018 - petsymposium.org
We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We
assembled a corpus of commercial mailing-list emails, and find a network of hundreds of …

Fingerprinting in style: Detecting browser extensions via injected style sheets

P Laperdrix, O Starov, Q Chen, A Kapravelos… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
Browser extensions enhance the web experience and have seen great adoption from users
in the past decade. At the same time, past research has shown that online trackers can use …

[PDF][PDF] Carnus: Exploring the Privacy Threats of Browser Extension Fingerprinting.

S Karami, P Ilia, K Solomos, J Polakis - In Proceedings of the 27th …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
With users becoming increasingly privacy-aware and browser vendors incorporating anti-
tracking mechanisms, browser fingerprinting has garnered significant attention. Accordingly …

CoCo: Efficient Browser Extension Vulnerability Detection via Coverage-guided, Concurrent Abstract Interpretation

J Yu, S Li, J Zhu, Y Cao - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extensions complement web browsers with additional functionalities and also bring new
vulnerability venues, allowing privilege escalations from adversarial web pages to use …