Evolution of web tracking protection in Chrome

Pan, Ronghao; Ruiz-Martínez, Antonio

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Evolution of web tracking protection in Chrome

dc.contributor.author	Pan, Ronghao
dc.contributor.author	Ruiz-Martínez, Antonio
dc.contributor.department	Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-06T07:54:25Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-06T07:54:25Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2023 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued	2023-11-08
dc.description.abstract	In our society, protecting users’ privacy is of utmost importance, especially when users access websites. Increased awareness of privacy concerns has led web browsers to implement new mechanisms to improve privacy while browsing the Internet. In each new version of web browsers, it is claimed that they provide better improvements to protect our privacy. However, there is no analysis of these improvements. To cope with this issue, in this paper, we present an analysis of the privacy of different versions of the Chrome web browser. This analysis is based on the PrivacyScanner tool, which we have improved with the detection of additional tracking techniques. Our findings reveal that tracking protection has seen modest enhancements (namely, between Chrome version 83 and 90, we observed a 7.55% reduction in trackers and 4.76% decrease in Google Analytics elements). Therefore, despite these improvements, there is still ample room for further enhancement.	es
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dc.format.extent	11	es
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Information Security and Applications 79 (2023) 103643
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2023.103643
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 2214-2126
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138703
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	This work has been funded by the European Commission’s H2020 Programme under the Grants Agreement Numbers 830929 (CyberSec4Europe project) and H2020-SU-DS-2019/883335 - PALANTIR (Practical Autonomous Cyberhealth for resilient SMEs & Microenterprises), and the European Commission (FEDER/ERDF); the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, under the ONOFRE 3 project (Grant No. PID2020-112675RB-C44).	es
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Privacy
dc.subject	Tracking
dc.subject	Fingerprinting
dc.subject	Privacy assessment
dc.subject	Chrome
dc.subject	Privacy scanner
dc.title	Evolution of web tracking protection in Chrome	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersión
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