Towards Understanding First-Party Cookie Tracking in the Field
| dc.contributor.author | Demir, Nurullah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Theis, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Urban, Tobias | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pohlmann, Norbert | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Christian Wressnegger, Delphine Reinhardt | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-24T11:17:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-24T11:17:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Third-party tracking is a common and broadly used technique on the Web. Different defense mechanisms have emerged to counter these practices (e. g. browser vendors that ban all third-party cookies). However, these countermeasures only target third-party trackers and ignore the first party because the narrative is that such monitoring is mostly used to improve the utilized service (e.g. analytical services). In this paper, we present a large-scale measurement study that analyzes tracking performed by the first party but utilized by a third party to circumvent standard tracking preventing techniques. We visit the top 15,000 websites to analyze first-party cookies used to track users and a technique called “DNS CNAME cloaking”, which can be used by a third party to place first-party cookies. Using this data, we show that 76% of sites effectively utilize such tracking techniques. In a long-running analysis, we show that the usage of such cookies increased by more than 50% over 2021. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.18420/sicherheit2022_01 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-88579-717-3 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1617-5468 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/40130 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | GI SICHERHEIT 2022 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Volume P-323 | |
| dc.subject | first-party tracking | |
| dc.subject | cookies | |
| dc.subject | privacy | |
| dc.subject | CNAME cloaking | |
| dc.subject | tracking method | |
| dc.title | Towards Understanding First-Party Cookie Tracking in the Field | en |
| gi.citation.endPage | 34 | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 19 | |
| gi.conference.date | 5.-8. April 2022 | |
| gi.conference.location | Karlsruhe | |
| gi.conference.sessiontitle | Session 1 |
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