Studies using OpenWPM

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As of October 2020 OpenWPM has been used in 76 studies.

YearVenueStudy
2014ACM CCSThe Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild
2014ACM CoSNCognitive disconnect: Understanding Facebook Connect login permissions
2015WWWCookies that give you away: The surveillance implications of web tracking
2015NDSSUpgrading HTTPS in midair: HSTS and key pinning in practice
2015Tech ScienceWeb privacy census
2015W2SPVariations in tracking in relation to geographic location
2016IFIP AICTEvaluating Websites and Their Adherence to Data Protection Principles
2016ACM CCSOnline Tracking: A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis
2016WWWNo honor among thieves: A large-scale analysis of malicious web shells
2017NDSSDial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams
2017PETSCross-Device Tracking: Measurement and Disclosures
2017CODASPYIdentifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real-Time
2017WWWDe-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks
2017IWPEBattery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in Web Standards
2017Annual Privacy ForumPrivacyScore: Improving Privacy and Security via Crowd-Sourced Benchmarks of Websites
2017arXivHorcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids
2017USENIX SecurityMeasuring the Insecurity of Mobile Deep Links of Android
2017Applied Economics LettersOnline advertising networks and consumer perceptions of privacy
2018PETSWhen the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
2018PETSI never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking
2018ACM TOITMeasuring third party tracker power across web and mobile
2018CALIconThird Party Trackers on Law School Library Websites
2018Master Thesis, Delft University of TechnologyTracking Cookies in the European Union, an Empirical Analysis of the Current Situation
2018ACM CCSThe Web’s Sixth Sense: A Study of Scripts Accessing Smartphone Sensors
2018ACSACRaising the Bar: Evaluating Origin-wide Security Manifests
2018arXivThe Unwanted Sharing Economy: An Analysis of Cookie Syncing and User Transparency under GDPR
2018PhD thesis, Princeton UniversityAutomated discovery of privacy violations on the web
2018AINTEC’18Understanding abusive web resources: characteristics and counter-measures of malicious web resources and cryptocurrency mining
2018ACSACRaising the Bar: Evaluating Origin-wide Security Manifests
2018SSRNAcquisitions in the Third Party Tracking Industry: Competition and Data Protection Aspects
2019Communications in Computer and Information ScienceTransparency in Keyword Faceted Search: An Investigation on Google Shopping
2019arXivThe Price of Free Illegal Live Streaming Services
2019Advances in Intelligent Systems and ComputingUsage of HTTPS by Municipal Websites in Portugal
2019ConProThe Impact of User Location on Cookie Notices (Inside and Outside of the European Union)
2019WWWBefore and After GDPR: The Changes in Third Party Presence at Public and Private European Websites
2019IEEE EuroS&PTraffickStop: Detecting and Measuring Illicit Traffic Monetization Through Large-Scale DNS Analysis
2019SSRNThe Market for Data Privacy
2019ACM CSCWDark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
2019Computer CommunicationsA comparison of web privacy protection techniques
2019DPMOn Privacy Risks of Public WiFi Captive Portals
2019Computers & SecurityTowards a global perspective on web tracking
2019APFTowards Transparency in Email Tracking
2019RAIDTalon: An Automated Framework for Cross-Device Tracking Detection
2019ACM CCSWatching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices
2019ACM IMCTales from the Porn: A Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of the Web Porn Ecosystem
2019IEEE EuroS&PTraffickStop: Detecting and Measuring Illicit Traffic Monetization Through Large-scale DNS Analysis
2019The New York TimesI Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.
2019The Washington PostThink you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
2019ESORICSFingerprint surface-based detection of web bot detectors
2019DPMA Study on Subject Data Access in Online Advertising after the GDPR
2019IEEE SPWAfter GDPR, Still Tracking or Not? Understanding Opt-Out States for Online Behavioral Advertising
2020PETSMissed by Filter Lists: Detecting Unknown Third-Party Trackers with Invisible Pixels
2020PETSInferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding
2020PETSA Comparative Measurement Study of Web Tracking on Mobile and Desktop Environments
2020PETSNo boundaries: data exfiltration by third parties embedded on web pages
2020PETSIn-Depth Evaluation of Redirect Tracking and Link Usage
2020The Web ConferenceThe Representativeness of Automated Web Crawls as a Surrogate for Human Browsing
2020The Web ConferenceApophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web
2020The Web ConferenceStop Tracking me Bro! Differential Tracking of User Demographics on Hyper-partisan Websites
2020The Web ConferenceBeyond the Front Page: Measuring Third Party Dynamics in the Field
2020ACM ASIACCSMeasuring the Impact of the GDPR on Data Sharing in Ad Networks
2020arXivActions speak louder than words: Semi-supervised learning for browser fingerprinting detection
2020PAMExtortion or Expansion? An investigation into the costs and consequences of ICANN’s gTLD experiments
2020Bachelor Thesis, Radboud UniversityDesign and implementation of a stealthy OpenWPM web scraper
2020IWPEOn Compliance of Cookie Purposes with the Purpose Specification Principle
2020FTC PrivacyConUnaccounted Privacy Violation: A Comparative Analysis of Persistent Identification of Users Across Social Contexts
2020IEEE EuroS&PMulti-country Study of Third Party Trackers from Real Browser Histories
2020TMACharacterizing CNAME Cloaking-Based Tracking on the Web
2020TMAClash of the Trackers: Measuring the Evolution of the Online Tracking Ecosystem
2020WEISThe Impact of the GDPR on Content Providers
2020PhD Thesis, University of MichiganEnhancing System Transparency, Trust, and Privacy with Internet Measurement
2020Masters Thesis, Concordia UniversityA Large-Scale Evaluation of Privacy Practices of Public WiFi Captive Portals
2020IEEE GlobecomA machine learning approach for detecting CNAME cloaking-based tracking on the Web
2021NDSSReining in the Web’s Inconsistencies with Site Policy
2021PETSUnveiling Web Fingerprinting in the Wild Via Code Mining and Machine Learning
2021IEEE S&PFingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors

† Uses Princeton Web Census data collected using OpenWPM.

‡ Studies OpenWPM’s behavior.