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Beyond the Front Page: Measuring Third Party Dynamics in the Field

  • In the modern Web, service providers often rely heavily on third parties to run their services. For example, they make use of ad networks to finance their services, externally hosted libraries to develop features quickly, and analytics providers to gain insights into visitor behavior. For security and privacy, website owners need to be aware of the content they provide their users. However, in reality, they often do not know which third parties are embedded, for example, when these third parties request additional content as it is common in real-time ad auctions. In this paper, we present a large-scale measurement study to analyze the magnitude of these new challenges. To better reflect the connectedness of third parties, we measured their relations in a model we call third party trees, which reflects an approximation of the loading dependencies of all third parties embedded into a given website. Using this concept, we show that including a single third party can lead to subsequent requests from up to eight additional services. Furthermore, our findings indicate that the third parties embedded on a page load are not always deterministic, as 50 % of the branches in the third party trees change between repeated visits. In addition, we found that 93 % of the analyzed websites embedded third parties that are located in regions that might not be in line with the current legal framework. Our study also replicates previous work that mostly focused on landing pages of websites. We show that this method is only able to measure a lower bound as subsites show a significant increase of privacy-invasive techniques. For example, our results show an increase of used cookies by about 36 % when crawling websites more deeply.

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Verfasserangaben:Tobias Urban, Martin Degeling, Thorsten Holz, Norbert Pohlmann
URL:https://norbert-pohlmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/409-Beyond-the-Front-Page-Measuring-Third-Party-Dynamics-in-the-Field-Prof.-Norbert-Pohlmann.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380203
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch):ACM - WWW 2020 ; Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Fertigstellung:2020
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2020
Veröffentlichende Institution:Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen
Datum der Freischaltung:26.02.2024
Seitenzahl:12
Erste Seite:1275
Letzte Seite:1286
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoEs gilt das Urheberrechtsgesetz

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