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06/14/2023
The Devil is in the Details: Analyzing the Lucrative Ad Fraud Patterns of the Online Ad Ecosystem
The online advertising market has recently reached the 500 billion dolla...
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02/26/2023
P4L: Privacy Preserving Peer-to-Peer Learning for Infrastructureless Setups
Distributed (or Federated) learning enables users to train machine learn...
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12/13/2022
FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation...
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08/01/2022
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Facebook Web Tracking with Invisible Pixels and Click IDs
Over the past years, advertisement companies have used a variety of trac...
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05/27/2022
YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children
In the last years, hundreds of new Youtube channels have been creating a...
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02/10/2022
Who Funds Misinformation? A Systematic Analysis of the Ad-related Profit Routines of Fake News sites
Fake news is an age-old phenomenon, widely assumed to be associated with...
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02/10/2022
Leveraging Google's Publisher-specific IDs to Detect Website Administration
Digital advertising is the most popular way for content monetization on ...
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10/21/2021
Be Daring to Push your Ads Forward: Measuring the (Over)use of Service Workers for Advertising Purposes
Rich offline experience, periodic background sync, push notification fun...
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09/07/2021
POW-HOW: An enduring timing side-channel to evadeonline malware sandboxes
Online malware scanners are one of the best weapons in the arsenal of cy...
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06/03/2021
THEMIS: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...
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03/16/2021
The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis
Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on th...
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02/17/2021
User Tracking in the Post-cookie Era: How Websites Bypass GDPR Consent to Track Users
During the past few years, mostly as a result of the GDPR and the CCPA, ...
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07/10/2020
THEMIS: Decentralized and Trustless Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...
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02/03/2020
Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites
Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content ...
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11/18/2019
ZKSENSE: a Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Bot Detection in Mobile Devices
CAPTCHA systems have been widely deployed to identify and block fraudule...
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11/06/2019
The coin that never sleeps. The privacy preserving usage of Bitcoin in a longitudinal analysis as a speculative asset
Bitcoin is the first and undoubtedly most successful cryptocurrecny to d...
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10/16/2019
Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting w...
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10/01/2019
VPN0: A Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Virtual Private Network
Distributed Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs) are new VPN solutions aimin...
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07/24/2019
Measuring ad value without bankrupting user privacy
Recent work has demonstrated that by monitoring the Real Time Bidding (R...
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07/24/2019
No More Chasing Waterfalls: A Measurement Study of the Header Bidding Ad-Ecosystem
In the last few years, Header Bidding (HB) has gained popularity among w...
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05/21/2019
The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements
In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point w...
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02/18/2019
Another Brick in the Paywall: The Popularity and Privacy Implications of Paywalls
Funding the production and distribution of quality online content is an ...
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09/30/2018
Master of Web Puppets: Abusing Web Browsers for Persistent and Stealthy Computation
The proliferation of web applications has essentially transformed modern...
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06/06/2018
Truth in Web Mining: Measuring the Profitability and Cost of Cryptominers as a Web Monetization Model
The recent advances of web-based cryptomining libraries along with the w...
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05/26/2018
Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
User data is the primary input of digital advertising, the fuel of free ...
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11/25/2017