Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance

Autor:	Kontaxis, Georgios, Chew, Monica
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Computer Science - Cryptography and Security
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We present Tracking Protection in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Tracking Protection is a new privacy technology to mitigate invasive tracking of users' online activity by blocking requests to tracking domains. We evaluate our approach and demonstrate a 67.5% reduction in the number of HTTP cookies set during a crawl of the Alexa top 200 news sites. Since Firefox does not download and render content from tracking domains, Tracking Protection also enjoys performance benefits of a 44% median reduction in page load time and 39% reduction in data usage in the Alexa top 200 news sites. Comment: In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP) 2015. Awarded Best Paper prize at workshop
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04104 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv