During the past few years, mostly as a result of the GDPR and the CCPA, websites have
started to present users with cookie consent banners. These banners are web forms where …

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks pose a significant threat to the security of web
applications, as they compromise personal information by stealing cookies. This study …

Fake news is an age-old phenomenon, widely assumed to be associated with political
propaganda published to sway public opinion. Yet, with the growth of social media, it has …

Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative
for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes …

Over the past years, advertisement companies have used various tracking methods to
persistently track users across the web. Such tracking methods usually include first and third …

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 …

When users browse to a so-called “First Party” website, other third parties are able to place
cookies on the users' browsers. Although this practice can enable some important use …

Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century.
Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on …

In this paper, we analyze the service providers that power 440 misinformation and hate sites,
including hosting platforms, domain registrars, CDN providers, DDoS protection companies …

Websites are constantly adapting the methods used, and intensity with which they track
online visitors. However, the wide-range enforcement of GDPR since one year ago (May …