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Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem
April 20, 2020Martin Lopatka, Antoine Vastel, Vikas Mishra, Walter Rudametkin, Pierre Laperdrix, Romain RouvoyPrivacy, security & trackingTargeted online advertising relies on user data tracking, but popular browsers lack protections against IP address-based tracking. This study shows that 87% of 2,230 users retain an IP address for over a month, making IP addresses a key vector for online tracking.
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The Representativeness of Automated Web Crawls as a Surrogate for Human Browsing
April 20, 2020Camila Oliveira, Fredrik Wollsén, Martin Lopatka, David Zeber, Sarah Bird, Walter Rudametkin, Ilana SegallAds transparencyLarge-scale web crawls are crucial for studying web characteristics and online tracking but may not fully represent human browsing behavior. This study quantifies the repeatability and representativeness of web crawls, highlighting differences between crawler behavior and human browsing.
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Moving Forward Together: Effective Activism for Change
April 1, 2020Katta Spiel, Jofish Kaye, Shaowen BardzellCommunity buildingThe paper aims to explore ways to improve the community and the world by incorporating real critiques of current systems and advocating for meaningful change.
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Choice of Voices: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Voice Quality for Long-Form Content
April 1, 2020Jim Maddock, Julia Cambre, Janice Tsai, Jofish Kaye, Jessica ColnagoVoice technologyThis study evaluates TTS voices for long-form content, focusing on voices that are pleasant to listen to for extended periods.
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Enhancing the Experience of Virtual Conferences in Social Virtual Environments
March 26, 2020Jessica Outlaw, Duc Anh Le, Blair MaclntyreCommunity building / Digital inclusion -
Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer
March 10, 2020Shravan Narayan, Eric Rahm, Nathan Froyd, Craig Disselkoen, Tal Garfinkel, Sorin Lerner, Hovav Shacham, Deian StefanPrivacy, security & trackingTo enhance security, Firefox is transitioning to a new architecture that isolates third-party libraries in sandboxes, reducing vulnerability risks.
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Actions speak louder than words: Semi-supervised learning for browser fingerprinting detection
March 9, 2020Martin Lopatka, David Zeber, Rob Willoughby, Sarah Bird, Vikas Mishra, Walter Rudametkin, Steven Englehardt -
Hardening Firefox against Injection Attacks
Feb. 3, 2020Frederik Braun, Christoph Kerschbaumer, Tom RitterPrivacy, security & trackingWeb browsers display content using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which can be untrusted and potentially malicious. Firefox uses these same technologies for both its interface and web content, creating security challenges.
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Debris: Intermingling ethnography with design and artistic practice
Jan. 27, 2020Heather McGeachy, Daria Loi -
“This Browser is Lightning Fast”: The Effects of Message Content on Perceived Performance
Dec. 1, 2019Jess Hohenstein, Bill Selman, Rebecca Weiss, Gemma Petrie, Jofish Kaye
