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Privacy Practices of Browser Agents
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1
This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing…
Local Frames: Exploiting Inherited Origins to Bypass Content Blockers
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Alex C. Snoeren +1
We present a study of how local frames (i.e., iframes loading content like "about:blank") are mishandled by a wide range of popular Web security and privacy tools. As a result, use…
Characterizing Browser Fingerprinting and its Mitigations
Alisha Ukani
People are becoming increasingly concerned with their online privacy, especially with how advertising companies track them across websites (a practice called cross-site tracking),…
Trackers Bounce Back: Measuring Evasion of Partitioned Storage in the Wild
Audrey Randall, Peter Snyder, Alisha Ukani +4
This work presents a systematic study of navigational tracking, the latest development in the cat-and-mouse game between browsers and online trackers. Navigational tracking allows…