Systems and methods for providing web tracking transparency to protect user data privacy

    公开(公告)号:US11449637B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16901935

    申请日:2020-06-15

    摘要: The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing web tracking transparency to protect user data privacy may include (i) receiving a browser request for target websites during a browsing session, (ii) identifying a tracking type for website trackers utilized by the target websites, the tracking type including a direct tracking type or a tracking sharing type, (iii) extracting an information category for the target websites, (iv) detecting text patterns shared between the target websites in a common information category, (v) determining information collected about a user by the website trackers by combining the tracking type for the website trackers, the information category for the target websites, and the detected text patterns, and (v) performing a security action that protects against unsolicited website tracking in future browsing sessions by providing the information collected by the website trackers to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

    Protecting against a tracking parameter in a web link

    公开(公告)号:US11777908B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US17356987

    申请日:2021-06-24

    IPC分类号: H04L9/40 G06F21/55 G06F16/955

    摘要: Protecting against a tracking parameter in a web link. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving an input URL during a browser navigation session on a user device, the input URL including parameters, determining that the parameters include a tracking parameter, pausing the browser navigation session on the user device, launching the input URL in a headless browser that operates in an isolated environment that simulates one or more features of the user device, landing on a destination web page in the isolated environment, identifying a URL of the destination web page as a destination URL, and resuming the browser navigation session on the user device by replacing the input URL, which includes the tracking parameter, with the destination URL, which does not include the tracking parameter, in order to protect the user device from the tracking parameter.