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Paid to Look Like Truth: The Prevalence and Dark Patterns of Advertorials in News Outlets
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
Advertorials represent a marketing strategy where advertisements are designed to resemble the style and tone of editorial content. Despite their appearance, they are, in fact, paid…
Before & After: The Effect of EU's 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
Over the past few years, the European Commission has made significant steps to reduce disinformation in cyberspace. One of those steps has been the introduction of the 2022 "Streng…
Welcome to the Dark Side: Analyzing the Revenue Flows of Fraud in the Online Ad Ecosystem
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Nicolas Kourtellis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +1
The online advertising market has recently reached the 500 billion dollar mark. To accommodate the need to match a user with the highest bidder at a fraction of a second, it has mo…
FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Spithouris, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machin…
YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children
Myrsini Gkolemi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
In the last years, hundreds of new Youtube channels have been creating and sharing videos targeting children, with themes related to animation, superhero movies, comics, etc. Unfor…
Leveraging Google's Publisher-specific IDs to Detect Website Administration
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Digital advertising is the most popular way for content monetization on the Internet. Publishers spawn new websites, and older ones change hands with the sole purpose of monetizing…
User Tracking in the Post-cookie Era: How Websites Bypass GDPR Consent to Track Users
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
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 the us…
The EuroSys 2020 Online Conference: Experience and lessons learned
Angelos Bilas, Dejan Kostic, Kostas Magoutis +4
The 15th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'20) was organized as a virtual (online) conference on April 27-30, 2020. The main EuroSys'20 track took place April 28-30,…
No More Chasing Waterfalls: A Measurement Study of the Header Bidding Ad-Ecosystem
Michalis Pachilakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
In recent years, Header Bidding (HB) has gained popularity among web publishers, challenging the status quo in the ad ecosystem. Contrary to the traditional waterfall standard, HB…