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The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis
Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on th...
03/16/2021 ∙ by Manolis Chalkiadakis, et al. ∙
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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, ...
02/17/2021 ∙ by Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, et al. ∙
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THEMIS: Decentralized and Trustless Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...
07/10/2020 ∙ by Goncalo Pestana, et al. ∙
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Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites
Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content ...
02/03/2020 ∙ by Pushkal Agarwal, et al. ∙
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ZKSENSE: a Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Bot Detection in Mobile Devices
CAPTCHA systems have been widely deployed to identify and block fraudule...
11/18/2019 ∙ by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙
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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...
11/06/2019 ∙ by Emmanouil Karampinakis, et al. ∙
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Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting w...
10/16/2019 ∙ by Alexander Sjosten, et al. ∙
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VPN0: A Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Virtual Private Network
Distributed Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs) are new VPN solutions aimin...
10/01/2019 ∙ by Matteo Varvello, et al. ∙
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Measuring ad value without bankrupting user privacy
Recent work has demonstrated that by monitoring the Real Time Bidding (R...
07/24/2019 ∙ by Michalis Pachilakis, et al. ∙
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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...
07/24/2019 ∙ by Michalis Pachilakis, et al. ∙
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The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements
In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point w...
05/21/2019 ∙ by Jordan Jueckstock, et al. ∙
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Another Brick in the Paywall: The Popularity and Privacy Implications of Paywalls
Funding the production and distribution of quality online content is an ...
02/18/2019 ∙ by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙
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Master of Web Puppets: Abusing Web Browsers for Persistent and Stealthy Computation
The proliferation of web applications has essentially transformed modern...
09/30/2018 ∙ by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙
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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...
06/06/2018 ∙ by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙
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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 ...
05/26/2018 ∙ by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙
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Privacy Risks from Public Data Sources
In the fight against tax evaders and other cheats, governments seek to g...
11/25/2017 ∙ by Zacharias Tzermias, et al. ∙
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