Monica at Mozilla

Mozilla officially started supported Tracking Protection in Private Browsing mode with Firefox 42, which launched a couple of weeks ago. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the launch! The onboarding looks awesome and the unified UI is a nice touch...

Advertising generates $50 billion annually in the US alone, but how much of that figure reflects real value? Approximately ⅓ of click traffic is fraudulent, leading to $10 billion in wasted spending annually. Counting revenue due to fraud towards the...

My paper with Georgios Kontaxis got best paper award at the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy workshop today! Georgios re-ran the performance evaluations on top news sites and the decrease in page load time with tracking protection enabled is even higher...

A roundup of links on tracking, advertising and security. These are not complete or even representative, but may be useful to somebody.
Attitudes towards tracking and surveillance
91% of adults in the survey “agree” or “strongly agree” that consumers have lost control over how personal information is collected and used by companies (http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-perceptions/)...