Browsing without Third-Party Cookies: What Do You See?
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| author | Lin, Maxwell Lin, Shihan Wu, Helen Wang, Karen Yang, Xiaowei |
| author_facet | Lin, Maxwell Lin, Shihan Wu, Helen Wang, Karen Yang, Xiaowei |
| contents | Third-party web cookies are often used for privacy-invasive behavior tracking. Partly due to privacy concerns, browser vendors have started to block all third-party cookies in recent years. To understand the effects of such third-party cookieless browsing, we crawled and measured the top 10,000 Tranco websites. We developed a framework to remove third-party cookies and analyze the differences between the appearance of web pages with and without these cookies. We find that disabling third-party cookies has no substantial effect on website appearance including layouts, text, and images. This validates the industry-wide shift towards cookieless browsing as a way to protect user privacy without compromising on the user experience. |
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| spellingShingle | Browsing without Third-Party Cookies: What Do You See? Lin, Maxwell Lin, Shihan Wu, Helen Wang, Karen Yang, Xiaowei Cryptography and Security Third-party web cookies are often used for privacy-invasive behavior tracking. Partly due to privacy concerns, browser vendors have started to block all third-party cookies in recent years. To understand the effects of such third-party cookieless browsing, we crawled and measured the top 10,000 Tranco websites. We developed a framework to remove third-party cookies and analyze the differences between the appearance of web pages with and without these cookies. We find that disabling third-party cookies has no substantial effect on website appearance including layouts, text, and images. This validates the industry-wide shift towards cookieless browsing as a way to protect user privacy without compromising on the user experience. |
| title | Browsing without Third-Party Cookies: What Do You See? |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10775 |