A Proposed Methodology for Analysis of Cookie Tracking and Cookie Management Solution

dc.contributor.author	Nosheen, Faryal
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-14T07:09:34Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-14T07:09:34Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.other	NUST201261272MCEME35412F
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.250.8.41:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/42642
dc.description	Supervisor Dr. Usman Qamar	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Advertisers place cookies in the browser to follow a user’s steps across different websites, mostly without his knowledge or consent. This diploma thesis deals with the problems of privacy issues caused by the tracking activities of third parties on the web and purpose a Firefox extension as a solution. The add-on ‘privacymanager’ provides control to user to manage third party cookies by setting polices for each site. Relevance and impact of the extension are proven by the analysis of data, gained with automated visits of 5.000 websites. Furthermore, currently available Mozilla Firefox add-ons dealing with cookies and privacy are analyzed in detail.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME), NUST	en_US
dc.title	A Proposed Methodology for Analysis of Cookie Tracking and Cookie Management Solution	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US