An empirical study of privacy-violating information flows in JavaScript web applications

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Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting (2013, background): “While a browser does not directly provide that list, one can acquire it using either a browser plugin that willingly provides this information or using a side-channel that indirectly reveals the presence or absence of any given font.”
Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web (2012, background): “From a slightly different threat model, the authors of [11] examined privacy-violating information flows on the web, though they don’t distinguish third-party trackers from visited sites themselves.”
FPDetective: dusting the web for fingerprinters (2013, background): “Furthermore, a user’s browsing history, which can be recovered exploiting JavaScript’s visited-link color feature [9], has also been shown to uniquely identify users [19].”
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology (2012, background): “Much of the discussion is based on recent results from a new dynamic web measurement platform, FourthParty.”