CNAME cloaking-based tracking on the web: Characterization, detection, and protection

H Dao, J Mazel, K Fukuda - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Third-party tracking on the Web has been used for collecting and correlating user's browsing
behavior. Due to the increasing use of ad-blocking and third-party tracking protections …

Cccc: Corralling cookies into categories with cookiemonster

X Hu, N Sastry, M Mondal - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Browser cookies are ubiquitous in the web ecosystem today. Although these cookies were
initially introduced to preserve user-specific state in browsers, they have now been used for …

A comparison of web privacy protection techniques

J Mazel, R Garnier, K Fukuda - Computer Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Tracksign: Guided web tracking discovery

I Castell-Uroz, J Solé-Pareta… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current web tracking practices pose a constant threat to the privacy of Internet users. As a
result, the research community has recently proposed different tools to combat well-known …

Astrack: Automatic detection and removal of web tracking code with minimal functionality loss

I Castell-Uroz, K Fukuda… - IEEE INFOCOM 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in web technologies make it more difficult than ever to detect and block
web tracking systems. In this work, we propose ASTrack, a novel approach to web tracking …

[PDF][PDF] Characterizing CNAME Cloaking-based Tracking on the Web.

H Dao, K Fukuda - TMA, 2020 - dl.ifip.org
Third-party tracking on the web has been used for collecting and correlating user's browsing
behavior. Many techniques have been developed to protect end-users from third-party …

Do opt-outs really opt me out?

D Bui, B Tang, KG Shin - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online trackers, such as advertising and analytics services, have provided users with
choices to opt out of their tracking and data collection to mitigate the users' concerns about …

Who touched my browser fingerprint? a large-scale measurement study and classification of fingerprint dynamics

S Li, Y Cao - Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Browser fingerprints are dynamic, evolving with feature values changed over time. Previous
fingerprinting datasets are either small-scale with only thousands of browser instances or …

Towards accurate detection of obfuscated web tracking

H Le, F Fallace, P Barlet-Ros - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Web tracking is currently recognized as one of the most important privacy threats on the
Internet. Over the last years, many methodologies have been developed to uncover web …

The cookie recipe: Untangling the use of cookies in the wild

R Gonzalez, L Jiang, M Ahmed… - 2017 Network Traffic …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Users online are commonly tracked using HTTP cookies when browsing on the web. To
protect their privacy, users tend to use simple tools to block the activity of HTTP cookies …