Reading List (WIP)

A work-in-progress reading list for background related to the overscripted dataset

Articles

• The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting: How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/gdpr-and-browser-fingerprinting-how-it-changes-game-sneakiest-web-trackers - article from EFF introduces browser fingerprinting and also contextualizes in 2018 nicely
• Our blog post summarizing progress through to Summer 2018 - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/overscripted-digging-into-javascript-execution-at-scale/
• The hidden perils of cookie syncing - https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2014/08/07/the-hidden-perils-of-cookie-syncing/ or the whole freedom to tinker series
• Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html - puts some color on the industry around tracking

Journal papers

• Online Tracking: A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis
  • Introduces crawling and OpenWPM
  • Gives an overview of a variety of tracking mechanisms
  • http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measurement.pdf
• Tracking the Trackers
  • http://josepmpujol.net/public/papers/pujolTrackingTheTrackers.pdf
  • https://www.ghostery.com/wp-content/themes/ghostery/images/campaigns/tracker-study/Ghostery_Study_-_Tracking_the_Trackers.pdf (ghostery study)
  • Nice tracking overview. Turns out there are TWO studies called tracking the trackers. They're both from the same author group though and relate to each other.
• Device fingerprinting for augmenting web authentication
  • Summarizes in detail browser fingerprinting techniques
  • http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/papers/acsac2016-device-fingerprinting.pdf
• A Survey on Web Tracking: Mechanisms, Implications, and Defenses
  • DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2016.2637878
  • https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/108437/web_tracking_survey-postprint.pdf
• The Web's Sixth Sense
  • Looks at stateless tracking for mobile, but along the way updates regular fingerprinting techniques.
  • Of particular interest is the fact that they released their code: https://sensor-js.xyz/
  • https://sensor-js.xyz/webs-sixth-sense-ccs18.pdf
• How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (Eckersley 2010)
  • https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf
  • Introduces browser fingerprinting
  • The original EFF paper
• The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild
  • Study of canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and use of "cookie syncing" in conjunction with evercookies
  • https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_comments/2015/10/00064-98109.pdf
• Browser Fingerprinting: A survey
  • Explains how fingerprint technique works and where it stems from
  • Overview of the composition of modern fingerprints
  • Systematize existing defense solutions
  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01051.pdf