OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers

Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers, or focus on just a single mobile browser instead. In this paper, we present a comprehensive web-tracking measureme...

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Autores principales:	Cassel Darion, Lin Su-Chin, Buraggina Alessio, Wang William, Zhang Andrew, Bauer Lujo, Hsiao Hsu-Chun, Jia Limin, Libert Timothy
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2022
Materias:	web tracking web measurement user privacy mobile browsers tracking protection Ethics BJ1-1725 Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:44e968ee5a26407b8ca02a823688943c2021-12-05T14:11:10ZOmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers2299-098410.2478/popets-2022-0012https://doaj.org/article/44e968ee5a26407b8ca02a823688943c2022-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0012https://doaj.org/toc/2299-0984Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers, or focus on just a single mobile browser instead. In this paper, we present a comprehensive web-tracking measurement study on mobile browsers and privacy-focused mobile browsers. Our study leverages a new web measurement infrastructure, OmniCrawl, which we develop to drive browsers on desktop computers and smartphones located on two continents. We capture web tracking measurements using 42 different non-emulated browsers simultaneously. We find that the third-party advertising and tracking ecosystem of mobile browsers is more similar to that of desktop browsers than previous findings suggested. We study privacy-focused browsers and find their protections differ significantly and in general are less for lower-ranked sites. Our findings also show that common methodological choices made by web measurement studies, such as the use of emulated mobile browsers and Selenium, can lead to website behavior that deviates from what actual users experience.Cassel DarionLin Su-ChinBuraggina AlessioWang WilliamZhang AndrewBauer LujoHsiao Hsu-ChunJia LiminLibert TimothySciendoarticleweb trackingweb measurementuser privacymobile browserstracking protectionEthicsBJ1-1725Electronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95ENProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Vol 2022, Iss 1, Pp 227-252 (2022)
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spellingShingle	web tracking web measurement user privacy mobile browsers tracking protection Ethics BJ1-1725 Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Cassel Darion Lin Su-Chin Buraggina Alessio Wang William Zhang Andrew Bauer Lujo Hsiao Hsu-Chun Jia Limin Libert Timothy OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
description	Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers, or focus on just a single mobile browser instead. In this paper, we present a comprehensive web-tracking measurement study on mobile browsers and privacy-focused mobile browsers. Our study leverages a new web measurement infrastructure, OmniCrawl, which we develop to drive browsers on desktop computers and smartphones located on two continents. We capture web tracking measurements using 42 different non-emulated browsers simultaneously. We find that the third-party advertising and tracking ecosystem of mobile browsers is more similar to that of desktop browsers than previous findings suggested. We study privacy-focused browsers and find their protections differ significantly and in general are less for lower-ranked sites. Our findings also show that common methodological choices made by web measurement studies, such as the use of emulated mobile browsers and Selenium, can lead to website behavior that deviates from what actual users experience.
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author	Cassel Darion Lin Su-Chin Buraggina Alessio Wang William Zhang Andrew Bauer Lujo Hsiao Hsu-Chun Jia Limin Libert Timothy
author_facet	Cassel Darion Lin Su-Chin Buraggina Alessio Wang William Zhang Andrew Bauer Lujo Hsiao Hsu-Chun Jia Limin Libert Timothy
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title	OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
title_short	OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
title_full	OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
title_fullStr	OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
title_full_unstemmed	OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers
title_sort	omnicrawl: comprehensive measurement of web tracking with real desktop and mobile browsers
publisher	Sciendo
publishDate	2022
url	https://doaj.org/article/44e968ee5a26407b8ca02a823688943c
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OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers

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