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Blocked or Broken? Automatically Detecting When Privacy Interventions Break Websites
Michael Smith, Peter Snyder, Moritz Haller +3
A core problem in the development and maintenance of crowd-sourced filter lists is that their maintainers cannot confidently predict whether (and where) a new filter list rule will…
There's No Trick, Its Just a Simple Trick: A Web-Compat and Privacy Improving Approach to Third-party Web Storage
Jordan Jueckstock, Peter Snyder, Shaown Sarker +2
While much current web privacy research focuses on browser fingerprinting, the boring fact is that the majority of current third-party web tracking is conducted using traditional,…
Improving Web Content Blocking With Event-Loop-Turn Granularity JavaScript Signatures
Quan Chen, Peter Snyder, Ben Livshits +1
Content blocking is an important part of a performant, user-serving, privacy respecting web. Most content blockers build trust labels over URLs. While useful, this approach has wel…
Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Alexander Sjosten, Peter Snyder, Antonio Pastor +2
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting web users. The vast majority of popular filter lists are crowd-sourced, where a large number of people manual…
Who Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking
Peter Snyder, Antoine Vastel, Benjamin Livshits
Ad and tracking blocking extensions are popular tools for improving web performance, privacy and aesthetics. Content blocking extensions typically rely on filter lists to decide wh…
Most Websites Don't Need to Vibrate: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security
Peter Snyder, Cynthia Taylor, Chris Kanich
Modern web browsers have accrued an incredibly broad set of features since being invented for hypermedia dissemination in 1990. Many of these features benefit users by enabling new…