Tracing Information Flows Between Ad Exchanges Using Retargeted Ads

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Code and Data

As a service to the community, we make the code and datasets from this study available to the public. Interested researchers can download them here.

The archives contains all of our labeled ad images, and the sources, destinations, and inclusion chains for all requests. The included README explains the purpose of all files and the data formats.

Citation

If you use this dataset, we ask that you please cite our paper as follows:

@inproceedings{ bashir-2016-usenix,
    author = "Muhammad Ahmad Bashir and Sajjad Arshad and William Robertson and Christo Wilson",
    title = {{Tracing Information Flows Between Ad Exchanges Using Retargeted Ads}},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of Usenix Security}},
    address = "Austin, TX",
    month = "August",
    year = "2016""
}