Impact
Press coverage, policy citations, and research impact.
In-depth articles and reports
Keystroke wiretapping research reached the Hacker News front page, sparking technical discussion about third-party tracking scripts and potential browser defenses.
In-depth coverage of research on keystroke event listeners and session replay scripts, highlighting that 38.5% of sites have third-party scripts capable of intercepting keystrokes.
Chrome antitrust research reached Hacker News front page with 101 points and 147 comments, sparking extensive debate on Chrome's market dominance and Google's ecosystem control.
Research on Google's Chrome antitrust paradox cited in discussion of potential Chrome divestiture and its implications for competition.
In-depth feature on our research showing how Chrome serves as a key tool for Google's market control across advertising and publishing.
CookieGraph research cited in official UK government report on Google's Privacy Sandbox initiative and third-party cookie deprecation.
Featured podcast interview discussing CookieGraph research, explaining how advertisers migrated from third-party to first-party cookies for tracking and how machine learning can detect them.
Direct quotes and expert commentary
“Google maintains deep control over the open-source Chromium project, which many competing browsers—including Microsoft and OpenAI—use as their underlying engine. This gives Google both technical and strategic advantages that can help them retain users in the emerging browser wars among tech giants.”
Quoted on Google Chrome's market dominance and its role in Google's broader ecosystem control.
“Previously we used to rely on filter lists which were manually curated, but the scale at which trackers are moving to other forms of tracking and the complication that arises due to the mixing of functional and tracking resources requires us to use more and more automated solutions which can perform analysis at a large scale to counteract advancements in tracking.”
Quoted on PURL research, explaining how link decorations are used to track users even after third-party cookies are blocked.
Citations and references