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- "A Distributed Performance Measurement Tool for Tor Browser" https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/thesis-407.pdf
- "Internet Privacy Implications" https://digital.wpi.edu/downloads/h989r614k
- "The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09301.pdf
- "Characterizing CNAME Cloaking-Based Tracking on the Web" https://tma.ifip.org/2020/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/06/tma2020-camera-paper66.pdf
- "Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers" https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18/pdf
- "Understanding the Performance Costs and Benefits of Privacy-focused Browser Extensions" https://kevin.borgolte.me/files/pdf/www2020-privacy-extensions.pdf
- "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Understanding the Interconnectedness of the Third Party Cookie Ecosystem" https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/netsys/datasets/tracking-the-trackers-papers/tanged_web.pdf
- "A comparison of web privacy protection techniques", https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06850.pdf
- "Ad-blocking: A Study on Performance, Privacy and Counter-measures", https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03193.pdf
- "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?", https://tma.ifip.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tma2017_paper30.pdf
- "Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools" https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/block_me_if_you_can.pdf
- "What Ad Blockers Are (and Are Not) Doing" https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/papers/hotweb16.pdf
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