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@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ specification to include where and how a particular resource can be found.
\glspl{URI} consist of multiple parts:
\begin{enumerate}
\item a scheme (in some cases a specific protocol),
\item an optional authority (network host or domain name),
\item a path (a specific location on that host),
\item an optional query and
\item an optional fragment preceded by a hashtag (a sub resource pointing to
a specific location within the resource)
\item a scheme (in some cases a specific protocol),
\item an optional authority (network host or domain name),
\item a path (a specific location on that host),
\item an optional query and
\item an optional fragment preceded by a hashtag (a sub resource pointing to
a specific location within the resource)
\end{enumerate}
To access a section called \texttt{introduction} in a blog post named
@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ user identifier. Once the \emph{submit} button has been clicked, the identifier
is sent to the server along with the data the user has filled in.
\begin{listing}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{html}{code/hidden-web-form.html}
\caption{Example of an \gls{HTTP} form containing a hidden field with
\texttt{id=userId}. The id is set by the web server dynamically so that every
visitor has his/her unique identifier attached to the form.}
\label{lst:hidden web form}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{html}{code/hidden-web-form.html}
\caption{Example of an \gls{HTTP} form containing a hidden field with
\texttt{id=userId}. The id is set by the web server dynamically so that every
visitor has his/her unique identifier attached to the form.}
\label{lst:hidden web form}
\end{listing}
\subsection{HTTP Referer}
@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ web page and the current web page is sent as a \gls{URL} in the \gls{HTTP}
Referer field. The header with the referrer information gets attached to the
\gls{HTTP} request which is sent to the server. The server responds with the
requested web page and can establish a link from the original web page to the
new web page. When applied to a majority of the requests on a site, the
new web page. When applied to a majority of the requests on a site, the
resulting data can be analyzed for promotional and statistical purposes.
\citeauthor{malandrinoPrivacyAwarenessInformation2013} have shown that the
\gls{HTTP} Referer is one of the most critical factors in leaking \gls{PII}
@ -283,15 +283,15 @@ user agent \cite[Section 4.1.2.3]{barthHTTPStateManagement2011}. The same-origin
policy applies to cookies, disallowing access by other domains.
\begin{listing}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{http}{code/session-cookie-header}
\caption{An example of an \gls{HTTP} header setting a session cookie.}
\label{lst:session cookie header}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{http}{code/session-cookie-header}
\caption{An example of an \gls{HTTP} header setting a session cookie.}
\label{lst:session cookie header}
\end{listing}
\begin{listing}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{http}{code/permanent-cookie-header}
\caption{An example of an \gls{HTTP} header setting a permanent cookie.}
\label{lst:permanent cookie header}
\inputminted[frame=lines,framesep=2mm,bgcolor=light-gray,baselinestretch=1.2,fontsize=\scriptsize,linenos]{http}{code/permanent-cookie-header}
\caption{An example of an \gls{HTTP} header setting a permanent cookie.}
\label{lst:permanent cookie header}
\end{listing}
Distinguishing tracking and non-tracking cookies can be done with high accuracy
@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Several websites were found using Flash cookies to respawn already deleted
\cite{acarWebNeverForgets2014} automated detecting Flash cookies and access to
them by monitoring file access with the GNU/Linux \emph{strace} tool
\cite{michaelStraceLinuxManual2020}. This allowed them to acquire data about
Flash cookies respawning \gls{HTTP} cookies. Their results show that six of the
Flash cookies respawning \gls{HTTP} cookies. Their results show that six of the
top 100 sites use Flash cookies for respawning.
Even though Flash usage has declined during the last few years thanks to the
@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ development of the HTML5 standard, \citeauthor{buhovFLASH20thCentury2018}
Flash content is still served by 7.5\% of the top one million websites (2017).
The W3Techs Web Technology Survey shows a similar trend and also offers an
up-to-date measurement of 2.7\% of the top ten million websites for the year
2020 \cite{w3techsHistoricalYearlyTrends2020}. Due to the security concerns in
2020 \cite{w3techsHistoricalYearlyTrends2020}. Due to the security concerns in
using Flash, Google's popular video sharing platform YouTube switched by default
to the HTML5 <video> tag in January of 2015
\cite{youtubeengineeringYouTubeNowDefaults2015}. In 2017 Adobe announced that they
@ -425,11 +425,11 @@ trackers to open an information sharing channel between each other without
necessarily having to know the website the user visits.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{cookiesyncing}
\label{fig:cookie synchronization}
\caption{Cookie Synchronization in practice between two trackers
\emph{cloudflare.com} and \emph{google.com}.}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{cookiesyncing}
\label{fig:cookie synchronization}
\caption{Cookie Synchronization in practice between two trackers
\emph{cloudflare.com} and \emph{google.com}.}
\end{figure}
An example of how Cookie Synchronization works in practice is given in