Reading List (WIP)

A work-in-progress reading list for background related to the overscripted dataset

The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting: How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/gdpr-and-browser-fingerprinting-how-it-changes-game-sneakiest-web-trackers - article from EFF introduces browser fingerprinting and also contextualizes in 2018 nicely
Our blog post summarizing progress through to Summer 2018 - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/overscripted-digging-into-javascript-execution-at-scale/
The hidden perils of cookie syncing - https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2014/08/07/the-hidden-perils-of-cookie-syncing/ or the whole freedom to tinker series
Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html - puts some color on the industry around tracking

Online Tracking: A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis
- Introduces crawling and OpenWPM
- Gives an overview of a variety of tracking mechanisms
- http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2976749.2978313
Tracking the Trackers
- https://www.ghostery.com/lp/study/
- Nice tracking overview
Device fingerprinting for augmenting web authentication
- Summarizes in detail browser fingerprinting techniques
- https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2991079.2991091
A Survey on Web Tracking: Mechanisms, Implications, and Defenses
- DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2016.2637878
- https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/108437/web_tracking_survey-postprint.pdf
How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (Eckersley 2010)
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14527-8_1
- Introduces browser fingerprinting
- The original EFF paper
The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild
- More good Englehardt stuff, but was trying for some diversity
- http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2660267.2660347

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