TTPCookie: Flexible Third-Party Cookie Management for Increasing Online Privacy

Author

Javed, Azhar ; Merz, Christian ; Schwenk, Joerg

Author_Institution

Dept. of Network & Data Security, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

44

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of privacy issues caused by the tracking activities of web advertisers. Web advertisers place cookies in the browser to track users´ surfing behaviour across websites, mostly without his knowledge or consent. This paper proposes a fine-grained, per-site cookie management protocol. We implement our proposal as Mozilla Firefox add-on and we call it TTPCookie. We evaluate the add-on on a data-set obtained from automated visits of 5000 websites. Further, Mozilla Firefox add-ons and other related proposals dealing with cookies and privacy are analysed and compared.

Keywords

data privacy; online front-ends; Mozilla Firefox add-on; TTPCookie; Web advertisers; fine-grained protocol; flexible third-party cookie management; online privacy; per-site cookie management protocol; tracking activities; user surfing behaviour tracking; Browsers; Data collection; Data privacy; Databases; Privacy; Proposals; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TrustCom.2014.9

Filename

7011231