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most citedWebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking

7 citations · 15 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CY2024

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…

cs.CR2024

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…

cs.CR2024

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…

cs.CR2024

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…

cs.CR2023

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…