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Interesting paper on Google Chrome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨One of my fav papers got accepted Chrome is the most used browser and gateway to the web—but how does it make money? Is it neutral? Studying 100s of technical+legal docs, we argue that Google uses it systematically to reinforce its market #power. ssrn.com/abstract=47807…

Is Chrome a neutral user-agent or does it systematically reinforce Google's dominance in online advertising and publishing? We analyze Chrome's critical role in Google's system and its antitrust implications in this upcoming article JETLaw

Picnic day UC Davis w/ konrad kollnig Shaoor Munir

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)

📢Concerned about web tracking by JavaScript? Check out Not.js, our framework that detects and neutralizes tracking functions automatically. Our (Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Shaoor Munir) work accepted to ACM CCS 2024 2024! Stay tuned for more! Pre-print🚨: arxiv.org/abs/2405.18385

In new research, Shaoor Munir, konrad kollnig, Anastasia Shuba 🇺🇦 and Zubair Shafiq explore how Google uses its web browser, Chrome, to maintain its dominance in other online markets, particularly advertising and search. promarket.org/2024/08/08/chr…

In new research, Shaoor Munir, Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba and Zubair Shafi explore how the #DataVampire Google uses its web browser, Chrome, to maintain its dominance in other online markets, particularly advertising and search. promarket.org/2024/08/08/chr…

On Monday, Google officially became a #monopoly in the US, in the biggest antitrust ruling in decades. Most past scrutiny of Google focused on its dominance in online search and ads. Chrome is often overlooked, despite being key to Google's monopoly, as we argue.

📢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

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

The US gov wants Google to sell Chrome to stop Google' monopoly in online search. But don't we all love Chrome? ❤️Why then sell it ? Let me explain, having published the first in-depth research article about this with Zubair Shafiq Anastasia Shuba 🇺🇦 Shaoor Munir. 🧵1/9

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 systematize developments in web tracking and identify open problems in our new work: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14057 w/ Yohan Shaoor Munir Gunes Nataliia Bielova Steven Englehardt Umar Iqbal Alexandros Kapravelos Pierre Laperdrix Nick Nikiforakis jason polakis Franzi Roesner Zubair Shafiq Sebastian Zimmeck

DiscussingFilm The plot is so predictable — the Fantastic Four can’t stop Galactus, so they just let him consume the world and escape through a portal into the main MCU. That’s it. A quick family motto, a few punches at some other bad guys, and a post-credit scene of Doom.