Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem

Mishra, Vikas; Laperdrix, Pierre; Vastel, Antoine; Rudametkin, Walter; Rouvoy, Romain; Lopatka, Martin

Type de document :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/3366423.3380161

Titre :

Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem

Auteur(s) :

Mishra, Vikas [Auteur]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Laperdrix, Pierre [Auteur]

Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Vastel, Antoine [Auteur]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Rudametkin, Walter [Auteur]

Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Rouvoy, Romain [Auteur]

Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Institut universitaire de France [IUF]
Lopatka, Martin [Auteur]

Éditeur(s) ou directeur(s) scientifique(s) :

Bruno Crispo
Nick Nikiforakis

Titre de la manifestation scientifique :

The Web Conference 2020

Ville :

Tapeï

Pays :

Taïwan

Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :

2020-04-20

Titre de la revue :

Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW'20)

Date de publication :

2020-04-20

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Online tracking
Privacy
IP Address tracking

Discipline(s) HAL :

Informatique [cs]/Web

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Targeted online advertising has become an inextricable part of the way Web content and applications are monetized. At the beginning, online advertising consisted of simple ad-banners broadly shown to website visitors. Over ...
Lire la suite >Targeted online advertising has become an inextricable part of the way Web content and applications are monetized. At the beginning, online advertising consisted of simple ad-banners broadly shown to website visitors. Over time, it evolved into a complex ecosystem that tracks and collects a wealth of data to learn user habits and show targeted and personalized ads. To protect users against tracking, several countermeasures have been proposed, ranging from browser extensions that leverage filter lists, to features natively integrated into popular browsers like Firefox and Brave to combat more modern techniques like browser fingerprinting. Nevertheless, few browsers offer protections against IP address-based tracking techniques. Notably, the most popular browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge do not offer any.In this paper, we study the stability of the public IP addresses a user device uses to communicate with our server. Over time, a same device communicates with our server using a set of distinct IP addresses, but we find that devices reuse some of their previous IP addresses for long periods of time. We call this IP address retention and, the duration for which an IP address is retained by a device, is named theIP address retention period.We present an analysis of 34,488 unique public IP addresses collected from 2,230 users over a period of 111 days and we show that IP addresses remain a prime vector for online tracking. 87 % of participants retain at least one IP address for more than a month and 45 % of ISPs in our dataset allow keeping the same IP address for more than 30 days. Furthermore, we also detect the presence of cycles of IP addresses in a user’s history and highlight their potential to be abused to infer traits of the user behaviour, as well as mobility traces. Our findings paint a bleak picture of the current state of online tracking at a time where IP addresses are overlooked compared to other techniques like cookies or fingerprinting.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

Comprendre et diagnostiquer les dégradations des communications de bout en bout dans l'Internet
FP-Locker : Renforcer l'authentification web grâce aux empreintes de navigateur

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

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