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Device fingerprint
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As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in mainstream web browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. To understand this phenomenon, we conduct a differential measurement study with versus without th ...
New York2023Protecting privacy through metadata analysis
Although encryption hides the content of communications from third parties, metadata, i.e., the information attached to the content (such as the size or timing of communication) can be a rich source of details and context. In this dissertation, we demonstr ...
EPFL2022Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services
Over a third of the world's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...
EPFL2019Some Things You Always Wanted to Know About Web Pages (But Were Too Busy to Ask)
Willy Zwaenepoel, Simon Schubert
The organic growth of the web has led to web sites that exhibit a large variety of properties. We conduct a large- scale study to gain quantitative insights into the browser-side effects of the structure and behavior of thousands of the most popular web si ...
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