5 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…
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…
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…
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…