Dataset: A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy / Part2
Demir, Nurullah
1; Urban, Tobias; Pohlmann, Norbert; Wressnegger, Christian 1
1 Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
1; Urban, Tobias; Pohlmann, Norbert; Wressnegger, Christian 11 Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Abstract:
Cookie notices (or cookie banners) are a popular mechanism for websites to provide (European) Internet users a tool to choose which cookies the site may set.
Banner implementations range from merely providing information that a site uses cookies over offering the choice to accepting or denying all cookies to allowing fine-grained control of cookie usage.
Users frequently get annoyed by the banner's pervasiveness as they interrupt ``natural'' browsing on the Web.
As a remedy, different browser extensions have been developed to automate the interaction with cookie banners.
In this work, we perform a large-scale measurement study comparing the effectiveness of extensions for ``cookie banner interaction.''
We configured the extensions to express different privacy choices (e.g., accepting all cookies, accepting functional cookies, or rejecting all cookies) to understand their capabilities to execute a user's preferences.
The results show statistically significant differences in which cookies are set, how many of them are set, and which types are set---even for extensions that aim to implement the same cookie choice.
Extensions for ``cookie banner interaction'' can effectively reduce the number of set cookies compared to no interaction with the banners.
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Banner implementations range from merely providing information that a site uses cookies over offering the choice to accepting or denying all cookies to allowing fine-grained control of cookie usage.
Users frequently get annoyed by the banner's pervasiveness as they interrupt ``natural'' browsing on the Web.
As a remedy, different browser extensions have been developed to automate the interaction with cookie banners.
In this work, we perform a large-scale measurement study comparing the effectiveness of extensions for ``cookie banner interaction.''
We configured the extensions to express different privacy choices (e.g., accepting all cookies, accepting functional cookies, or rejecting all cookies) to understand their capabilities to execute a user's preferences.
The results show statistically significant differences in which cookies are set, how many of them are set, and which types are set---even for extensions that aim to implement the same cookie choice.
Extensions for ``cookie banner interaction'' can effectively reduce the number of set cookies compared to no interaction with the banners.
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| Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT | Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL) Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL) |
| Publikationstyp | Forschungsdaten |
| Publikationsdatum | 23.08.2023 |
| Erstellungsdatum | 21.04.2023 - 01.05.2023 |
| Identifikator | DOI: 10.35097/1717 KITopen-ID: 1000161586 |
| Lizenz | Creative Commons Namensnennung – Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
| Liesmich | This repository hosts the dataset corresponding to the paper "A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users’ Privacy", which was published at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) in 2024. |
| Art der Forschungsdaten | Dataset |
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