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Record W2089407899 · doi:10.1145/2790798.2790803

User Agent and Privacy Compromise

2008· article· en· W2089407899 on OpenAlexaff
Bipin C. Desai

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceCompromiseThe InternetMultitudeWorld Wide WebInternet privacyEncryptionPrivacy softwareUser interfaceComputer securityInformation privacy

Abstract

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World Wide Web and the graphic user agents(web browsers) have brought the internet to billions of new users who use it hours on end daily to perform a multitude of tasks. However, the user agents also provide a means to compromise the users privacy by employing various tracking mechanisms and use of analytics. The browser was intended to make the use of the internet easy with a simple and intuitive interface. It has morphed into a beast which has hidden in it mechanisms to allow suppliers of information content, on-line shopping companies and multitude of third parties to target publicity based on information gleaned from previous web journeys of users of these browsers. This paper focuses on summarizing privacy problems on the client side and highlights the default settings of some of the popular browsers and points out the difficulty of creating the proper settings even to disable cookies from third parties. We present some independent add-ons to help in preserving some privacy and some of the drawbacks of such band-aid solutions. Finally, we present some suggestions so that the user can know exactly what is being recorded in the cookies based on double encryption giving back some control to the user of his own data.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.594
Threshold uncertainty score0.494

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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