Biblioteca

The Representativeness of Automated Web Crawls as a Surrogate for Human Browsing

Large-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.

Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem

Targeted 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.

Moving Forward Together: Effective Activism for Change

The paper aims to explore ways to improve the community and the world by incorporating real critiques of current systems and advocating for meaningful change.

Choice of Voices: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Voice Quality for Long-Form Content

This study evaluates TTS voices for long-form content, focusing on voices that are pleasant to listen to for extended periods.

Enhancing the Experience of Virtual Conferences in Social Virtual Environments

Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer

To enhance security, Firefox is transitioning to a new architecture that isolates third-party libraries in sandboxes, reducing vulnerability risks.

Actions speak louder than words: Semi-supervised learning for browser fingerprinting detection

Hardening Firefox against Injection Attacks

Web 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.

Debris: Intermingling ethnography with design and artistic practice

An Empirical Study of DLL Injection Bugs in the Firefox Ecosystem