Shining the Floodlights on Mobile Web Tracking — A Privacy Survey
Shining the Floodlights on Mobile Web Tracking — A Privacy Survey
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关注移动网络跟踪——一项隐私调查
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2013
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Arvind Narayanan
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Christian Eubank;Marcela S. Melara;Diego Perez;Arvind Narayanan
我们提出了第一个发表的大规模研究移动的网络跟踪。我们比较了五个物理和模拟移动的设备的跟踪与一个桌面设备作为基准。我们的爬虫基于FourthParty;然而，我们的架构避免了清除状态，这有利于第三方的持续观察。我们证实了许多直观的预测，并报告了一些惊喜。不同类别设备的顶级第三方域名列表基本相似;我们发现很少有移动特定的广告网络。随着我们考虑更强大的设备，通过跟踪域来使用JavaScript的情况逐渐增加。我们还通过设备分析cookie寿命。最后，我们分析了一个奇怪的现象，cookie用于存储有关用户在客户端上的浏览历史记录的信息。移动的跟踪似乎是一个研究不足的领域，本文只是第一步。我们已经在http://webtransparency.org/上提供了我们的代码和数据，供其他人使用。
We present the first published large-scale study of mobile web tracking. We compare tracking across five physical and emulated mobile devices with one desktop device as a benchmark. Our crawler is based on FourthParty; however, our architecture avoids clearing state which has the benefit of continual observation of (and by) third-parties. We confirm many intuitive predictions and report a few surprises. The lists of top third-party domains across different categories devices are substantially similar; we found surprisingly few mobile-specific ad networks. The use of JavaScript by tracking domains increases gradually as we consider more powerful devices. We also analyze cookie longevity by device. Finally, we analyze a curious phenomenon of cookies that are used to store information about the user’s browsing history on the client. Mobile tracking appears to be an under-researched area, and this paper is only a first step. We have made our code and data available at http://webtransparency.org/ for others to build on.