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

Millions of users worldwide resort to mobile VPN clients to either circumvent censorship or to
access geo-blocked content, and more generally for privacy and security purposes. In …

A third-party cookie is a tracking code set by a third-party platform or a technology provider
on the website the user is visiting. This small amount of text identifies users online, reveals …

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 …

Web tracking seems to become ubiquitous in online business and leads to increased
privacy concerns of users. This paper provides an overview over the current state of the art …

The increasing popularity of adblockers has prompted online publishers to retaliate against
adblock users by deploying anti-adblock scripts, which detect adblock users and bar them …

Given the increasing popularity of social media and other Internet-related technologies,
individuals spend a lot of time across different online activities, such as doing Google …

Advertising and Analytics (A&A) companies have started collaborating more closely with one
another due to the shift in the online advertising industry towards Real Time Bidding (RTB) …

Users rely on ad and tracker blocking tools to protect their privacy. Unfortunately, existing ad
and tracker blocking tools are susceptible to mutable advertising and tracking content. In this …

Browser-based blocking extensions such as Ad blockers and Tracker blockers have
provisions that allow users to counter online tracking. While prior research has shown that …