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On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're an LLM Bot: Unmasking Web Agents with Multi-Layer Fingerprinting
Iliana Fayolle, Sihem Bouhenniche, Samuel Pélissier +3
Since 2023, a new class of bots has emerged: Web Agents. They can automate complex tasks on the Web, going beyond traditional browser automation tools such as Selenium, Puppeteer,…
SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking
Yash Vekaria, Yohan Beugin, Shaoor Munir +11
Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and inva…
Free Proxies Unmasked: A Vulnerability and Longitudinal Analysis of Free Proxy Services
Naif Mehanna, Walter Rudametkin, Pierre Laperdrix +1
Free-proxies have been widespread since the early days of the Web, helping users bypass geo-blocked content and conceal their IP addresses. Various proxy providers promise faster I…
UA-Radar: Exploring the Impact of User Agents on the Web
Jean Luc Intumwayase, Imane Fouad, Pierre Laperdrix +1
In the early days of the web, giving the same web page to different browsers could provide very different results. As the rendering engine behind each browser would differ, some el…
Breaking Bad: Quantifying the Addiction of Web Elements to JavaScript
Romain Fouquet, Pierre Laperdrix, Romain Rouvoy
While JavaScript established itself as a cornerstone of the modern web, it also constitutes a major tracking and security vector, thus raising critical privacy and security concern…
JSRehab: Weaning Common Web Interface Components from JavaScript Addiction
Romain Fouquet, Pierre Laperdrix, Romain Rouvoy
Leveraging JavaScript (JS) for User Interface (UI) interactivity has been the norm on the web for many years. Yet, using JS increases bandwidth and battery consumption as scripts n…
DRAWNAPART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting
Tomer Laor, Naif Mehanna, Antonin Durey +7
Browser fingerprinting aims to identify users or their devices, through scripts that execute in the users' browser and collect information on software or hardware characteristics.…
Multi-Variant Execution at the Edge
Javier Cabrera-Arteaga, Pierre Laperdrix, Martin Monperrus +1
Edge-cloud computing offloads parts of the computations that traditionally occurs in the cloud to edge nodes,e.g., CDN servers, in order to get closer to the users and reduce laten…
An iterative technique to identify browser fingerprinting scripts
Antonin Durey, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin +1
Browser fingerprinting is a stateless identification technique based on browser properties. Together, they form an identifier that can be collected without users' notice and has be…
Browser Fingerprinting: A survey
Pierre Laperdrix, Nataliia Bielova, Benoit Baudry +1
With this paper, we survey the research performed in the domain of browser fingerprinting, while providing an accessible entry point to newcomers in the field. We explain how this…