Uncovering Canvas Fingerprinting in Real-Time and Analyzing ist Usage for Web-Tracking
Abstract
Since the beginnings of the World Wide Web, advertisements are an inherent part of it.
It enables business models that allow users to consume content and services free of charge, while
their providers generate revenue with every visitor. These advertisements are specifically tailored
to each user to increase the probability that a user actually clicks on them. However, in order to
personalize these advertisements, tracking techniques are used to generate profiles for every
visitor. Canvas fingerprinting is a modern technique to identify users across multiple websites.
Since the generation of such fingerprints takes place completely absent from the users’ attention,
this paper presents a browser extension to uncover these fingerprints in real-time. Furthermore, an
analysis of today’s usage of canvas fingerprinting is conducted to evaluate the role of it in Web
tracking practices. We found that canvas fingerprinting is hardly used for Web tracking, while
simultaneously learning that it is applied in the field of cyber security.
- Citation
- BibTeX
Raschke, P. & Küpper, A.,
(2018).
Uncovering Canvas Fingerprinting in Real-Time and Analyzing ist Usage for Web-Tracking.
In:
Czarnecki, C., Brockmann, C., Sultanow, E., Koschmider, A. & Selzer, A.
(Hrsg.),
Workshops der
INFORMATIK 2018 -
Architekturen, Prozesse,
Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit.
Bonn:
Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH.
(S. 97-108).
@inproceedings{mci/Raschke2018,
author = {Raschke, Philip AND Küpper, Axel},
title = {Uncovering Canvas Fingerprinting in Real-Time and Analyzing ist Usage for Web-Tracking},
booktitle = {Workshops der INFORMATIK 2018 - Architekturen, Prozesse, Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit},
year = {2018},
editor = {Czarnecki, Christian AND Brockmann, Carsten AND Sultanow, Eldar AND Koschmider, Agnes AND Selzer, Annika} ,
pages = { 97-108 },
publisher = {Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH},
address = {Bonn}
}
author = {Raschke, Philip AND Küpper, Axel},
title = {Uncovering Canvas Fingerprinting in Real-Time and Analyzing ist Usage for Web-Tracking},
booktitle = {Workshops der INFORMATIK 2018 - Architekturen, Prozesse, Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit},
year = {2018},
editor = {Czarnecki, Christian AND Brockmann, Carsten AND Sultanow, Eldar AND Koschmider, Agnes AND Selzer, Annika} ,
pages = { 97-108 },
publisher = {Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH},
address = {Bonn}
}
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ISBN: 978-3-88579-679-4
ISSN: 1617-5468
xmlui.MetaDataDisplay.field.date: 2018
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Content Type: Text/Conference Paper