Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web
By Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, David Wetherall. Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2012
491 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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Citations in the corpus
- The Long-Standing Privacy Debate: Mobile Websites vs Mobile Apps (2017, background): “Roesner and Kohno in [46] propose a taxonomy to classify tracking behaviors beyond the traditional notions of firstand third-party tracking.”
- Non-tracking web analytics (2012, background): “These criticisms have led to industry self-regulation to provide opt-out mechanisms [4,5,19,25], the Do-Not-Track (DNT) initiative in the W3C, and many client-side tools, either to implement DNT [10,20,21], or to prevent tracking outright [1, 7, 9, 11].”
- Do Opt-Outs Really Opt Me Out? (2022, methodology): “The most common online tracking technology used in practice and stated in privacy policies is HTTP cookies placed on user devices [64, 87].”
- Measuring personalization of web search (2013, methodology): “ and clicking, and Web browsing) on Google Search, but only execute two (searching, and searching and clicking) on Bing. As previous studies have shown, Google is a ubiquitous presence across the Web [46], which gives Google the ability to track user’s as they browse. In contrast, Microsoft and Bing”
- Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology (2012, background): “Analyzing FourthParty data is also easy for researchers who are already familiar with SQL syntax.”
- Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting (2013, background): “Shortly after the introduction of cookies, abuses of their stateful nature were observed.”
- Online Tracking: A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis (2016, methodology): “In the following years, studies show a continual increase in third-party tracking and in the diversity of tracking techniques [23, 35, 16, 2, 1, 4].”