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Our second keynote speaker for #SecWeb2024 will be Prof. Alexandros Kapravelos Alexandros Kapravelos from NC State! He will present "Unveiling Web Threats: Insights from JavaScript Behavior". See you in San Francisco on May 23rd! IEEE S&P Marco Squarcina

Pre-IEEE S&P party. Will be giving a short talk on how to detect and block tracking Javascript functions at V8-level on Tuesday. Happy to meet folks working in this space.

Catch me in Track 1 - Session 5 (Continental Ballroom 4: 9-10am tomorrow - May 21st) IEEE S&P to learn “How misinformation websites monetize themselves by deceiving advertisers to inadvertantly show their ads next to problematic content online?” (w/ Zubair Shafiq, Rishab Nithyanand)

I did a deep dive into the browser fingerprint of an unmodified Headless Chrome instrumented with Puppeteer to see what are the main differences with a normal Chrome that still exist in 2024: deviceandbrowserinfo.com/learning_zone/… (1/3)

📢Paper accepted at @ACM_IMC_2024 How do Smart TVs profile viewing activity of its users? We look at the tracking conducted directly by the Smart TV platforms via ACR to understand privacy implications in UK vs US. Gianluca Anselmi, Alexander D'Souza, P.C, Anna Maria Mandalari 🦋, Zubair Shafiq

Attending CCS! Want to chat about making the internet more secure and private? Let's talk!

Going to present our research today at ACM CCS 2025! If you're interested in JavaScript and Web security and privacy, join us for the Web Security II Session.

Thrilled to share: Our (Shaoor Munir, Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar) work received the ACM CCS 2025 Distinguished Artifact Award! Huge team effort!

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📢 Thrilled to share some exciting news! 🎉 Our (@MuhammadDa72745, Bless, Muhammad Ali Gulzar) paper on accessibility challenges in ad-driven web applications has been accepted to ICSE—one of only 66 out of 642 submissions this year! Pre-print soon. Stay tuned!

Nice to see everyone at the 2024 ProperData Frontier symposium - Halloween Edition. Going over last year's accomplishments and brainstorming the future: AI permeated most discussions.

Excited to share that the 2024 Web Almanac Privacy Chapter is now live! Thrilled to have co-authored it, offering key insights into web privacy trends. Dive in here: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/privacy Kudos to everyone who contributed! 🎉

1️⃣4️⃣ Privacy in 2024 🛡️ Privacy practices are shifting: Facebook is moving from third-party to first-party cookies 📊 63% of pages adopt the Protected Audience API. 🍪 14.3% of pages include Facebook’s first-party cookie. 🔍 The most common number of trackers per page is 3. by

The Privacy chapter was written by a cornucopia of experts: Yash Vekaria, Benjamin Standaert, Max Ostapenko, Haddi Amjad, Yana Dimova, Shaoor Munir, Chris Böttger, and Umar Iqbal almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/privacy Catch up on for the latest on a very important topic for the web!

We've just published the 19th and final chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac on JavaScript by Haddi Amjad and Nishu Goel almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/javasc…

Haddi Amjad Nishu Goel That marks the end of the 2024 Web Almanac. A little later than usual but worth it in the end. And also means the ebook is now available: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/table-… 754 pages jam packed with all sorts of nerdy goodness!!!

You're loading more #JavaScript, but are you using it wisely? 🤔 The JavaScript section by Nishu Goel & Haddi Amjad of The Web Almanac's new report dives deep: unused bytes, #TypeScript trends, & #jQuery still strong! Get the full scoop! 👇 prgress.co/3XDNQ3n

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