6 papers
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…
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…
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…
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-Rowhammer: DRAM-Based Device Fingerprinting
Hari Venugopalan, Kaustav Goswami, Zainul Abi Din +3
Device fingerprinting leverages attributes that capture heterogeneity in hardware and software configurations to extract unique and stable fingerprints. Fingerprinting countermeasu…
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…