August 20th, 2018 By John E Dunn
Virtually every desktop browser and adblocker can have its ad-tracking privacy or security bypassed by at least one software technique, a new study has found.
Researchers from the Catholic University in Leuven devised a framework to test the effectiveness of protections offered by the Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, Tor, and Cliqz desktop browsers to a range of potential bypass mechanisms (mobile products weren’t tested).
In addition, 46 leading third-party extensions and blockers (AdBlock, AdGuard and Ghostery, et al) were pitted against the same bypasses, which included HTML tags, response headers, redirects, the AppCache and Service Worker APIs, JavaScript, and even browser PDF viewers.
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