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- "Users Pay Twice: The Hidden Energy Cost of Web Advertising"
- "Assessing Data Privacy on a Vendor Website"
- "Privacy vs. Profit: The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 (MV3) Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness"
- "Impact of ad blockers on computer power consumption: a comparative analysis of browser ad on and built-in browsers feature"
- "Ad Blockers & Online Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)"
- "Defining “Broken”: User Experiences and Remediation Tactics When Ad-Blocking or Tracking-Protection Tools Break a Website’s User Experience"
- "Early detection of new web tracking methods across 1.5 million sites"
- "From Blocking to Breaking: Evaluating the Impact of Adblockers on Web Usability"
- "Client-side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites"
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13376 (not freely available)
- "On the Impact of Internal Webpage Selection when Evaluating Ad Blocker Performance"
- "Towards Understanding First-Party Cookie Tracking in the Field"
- "A Distributed Performance Measurement Tool for Tor Browser"
- "Internet Privacy Implications"
- "The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion"
- "Enhancing System Transparency, Trust, and Privacy with Internet Measurement"
- "Characterizing CNAME Cloaking-Based Tracking on the Web"
- "Demystifying content-blockers: A large scale study of actual performance gains"
- "Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers"
- "Understanding the Performance Costs and Benefits of Privacy-focused Browser Extensions"
- "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Understanding the Interconnectedness of the Third Party Cookie Ecosystem"
- "Analyse et comparaison des différents outils permettant de limiter ses traces numériques"
- "Comparing privacy plugins"
- "Characterizing the Use of Browser-Based Blocking Extensions To Prevent Online Tracking"
- "A comparison of web privacy protection techniques"
- "Ad-blocking: A Study on Performance, Privacy and Counter-measures"
- "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?"
- "Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools"
- "MyTrackingChoices: Pacifying the Ad-Block War by Enforcing User Privacy Preferences"
- "What Ad Blockers Are (and Are Not) Doing"
- DebugBear Blog: "How Do Chrome Extensions Impact Website Performance In 2024?"
- Who is Tracking You? "Effects of Privacy Browser Settings and Plugins On Web-Tracking"
- testachats (Belgium): Le bloqueur de publicité gratuit de Google Chrome ne bloque pratiquement aucune pub
- Translated excerpt: "If you're looking for a good free adblocker, choose uBlock Origin. This adblocker achieved the best results in terms of effectiveness in blocking advertisements, privacy, functionality and time saving."
- DebugBear Blog: "How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?"
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