Web tracking sites or Web bugs are potential but serious threats to users' privacy during
Web browsing. Web sites and their associated advertising sites surreptitiously gather the
profiles of visitors and possibly abuse or improperly expose them, even if visitors do not
provide their profiles consciously. In order to prevent such activities in a corporate network,
most companies employ filters that rely on blacklists, however, these lists are insufficient. In
this paper, we propose Web tracking sites detection and blacklist generation based on …

Web tracking sites or Web bugs are potential but serious threats to users' privacy during
Web browsing. Web sites and their associated advertising sites surreptitiously gather the
profiles of visitors and possibly abuse or improperly expose them, even if visitors are
unaware their profiles are being utilized. In order to prevent such sites in a corporate
network, most companies employ filters that rely on blacklists, but these lists are insufficient.
In this paper, we propose Web tracking sites detection and blacklist generation based on …