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Web tracking technologies, such as supercookies and browser fingerprinting, continue to be developed, and the deletion of HTTP cookies and the use of private browsing may be insufficient to prevent web tracking. Several countermeasures exist against web tracking technologies, including browser history deletion, browser extensions that prevent web tracking, private browsing, and the Tor browser. However, the effectiveness of these approaches has not been determined. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of these countermeasures, and the results indicate that different measures have different degrees of effectiveness.
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Saito, T., Koshiba, R. (2020). Examination and Comparison of Countermeasures Against Web Tracking Technologies. In: Barolli, L., Xhafa, F., Hussain, O. (eds) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing . IMIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 994. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22263-5_46
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