In the early days of the web, content was designed and hosted by a single person, group, or
organization. No longer. Webpages are increasingly composed of content from myriad …

Browser fingerprinting is an invasive and opaque stateless tracking technique. Browser
vendors, academics, and standards bodies have long struggled to provide meaningful …

The web has become an essential part of our society and is currently the main medium of
information delivery. Billions of users browse the web on a daily basis, and there are single …

We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to “device
fingerprinting” via the version and configuration information that they will transmit to websites …

With the development of modern browsing, the convenience brought by rich browser
features has also produced a large number of features, which are called browser …

In the modern web, the browser has emerged as the vehicle of choice, which users are to
trust, customize, and use, to access a wealth of information and online services. However …

Tying the browser more closely to operating system functionality and system hardware
means that websites have more access to these resources, and that browser behavior varies …

We study techniques for identifying an anonymous author via linguistic stylometry, ie,
comparing the writing style against a corpus of texts of known authorship. We experimentally …

With this article, we survey the research performed in the domain of browser fingerprinting,
while providing an accessible entry point to newcomers in the field. We explain how this …

Researchers have shown that, in recent years, unwanted web tracking is on the rise, with
browser-based fingerprinting being adopted by more and more websites as a viable …