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15 papers
Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
Shaoor Munir, Nurullah Demir, Qian Li +2
The privacy community has a long track record of investigating emerging types of web tracking techniques. Recent work has focused on compliance of web trackers with new privacy law…
Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox
Shaoor Munir, Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba +1
This Article examines Google's dominance of the browser market, highlighting how Google's Chrome browser plays a critical role in reinforcing Google's dominance in other markets. W…
FP-Inconsistent: Measurement and Analysis of Fingerprint Inconsistencies in Evasive Bot Traffic
Hari Venugopalan, Shaoor Munir, Shuaib Ahmed +3
As browser fingerprinting is increasingly being used for bot detection, bots have started altering their fingerprints for evasion. We conduct the first large-scale evaluation of ev…
COOKIEGUARD: Characterizing and Isolating the First-Party Cookie Jar
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Aurore Fass, Zubair Shafiq
As third-party cookies are being phased out or restricted by major browsers, first-party cookies are increasingly repurposed for tracking. Prior work has shown that third-party scr…
Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Shaoor Munir, Zubair Shafiq +1
Modern websites extensively rely on JavaScript to implement both functionality and tracking. Existing privacy enhancing content blocking tools struggle against mixed scripts, which…
PURL: Safe and Effective Sanitization of Link Decoration
Shaoor Munir, Patrick Lee, Umar Iqbal +2
While privacy-focused browsers have taken steps to block third-party cookies and mitigate browser fingerprinting, novel tracking techniques that can bypass existing countermeasures…
FP-Rowhammer: DRAM-Based Device Fingerprinting
Hari Venugopalan, Kaustav Goswami, Zainul Abi Din +3
Device fingerprinting leverages attributes that capture heterogeneity in hardware and software configurations to extract unique and stable fingerprints. Fingerprinting countermeasu…
Blocking JavaScript without Breaking the Web: An Empirical Investigation
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar
Modern websites heavily rely on JavaScript (JS) to implement legitimate functionality as well as privacy-invasive advertising and tracking. Browser extensions such as NoScript bloc…
COOKIEGRAPH: Understanding and Detecting First-Party Tracking Cookies
Shaoor Munir, Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal +3
As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. We conduct a differential measuremen…
FP-Radar: Longitudinal Measurement and Early Detection of Browser Fingerprinting
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq
Browser fingerprinting is a stateless tracking technique that attempts to combine information exposed by multiple different web APIs to create a unique identifier for tracking user…
TrackerSift: Untangling Mixed Tracking and Functional Web Resources
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Danial Saleem, Fareed Zaffar +2
Trackers have recently started to mix tracking and functional resources to circumvent privacy-enhancing content blocking tools. Such mixed web resources put content blockers in a b…
WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking
Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt +2
Millions of web users directly depend on ad and tracker blocking tools to protect their privacy. However, existing ad and tracker blockers fall short because of their reliance on t…
Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq
Browser fingerprinting is an invasive and opaque stateless tracking technique. Browser vendors, academics, and standards bodies have long struggled to provide meaningful protection…
A4 : Evading Learning-based Adblockers
Shitong Zhu, Zhongjie Wang, Xun Chen +6
Efforts by online ad publishers to circumvent traditional ad blockers towards regaining fiduciary benefits, have been demonstrably successful. As a result, there have recently emer…
AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking
Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu +3
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 comp…