Supportive, Comprehensive and Improved Privacy Protection for Web Browsing

Protecting users privacy on the Web is becoming increasingly complicated because of the silent actions of third party sites that spy, collect data, aggregate information and build profiles, transparently to end users, to provide targeted advertising. On the Web, users are loudly concerned about the large amount of information left in many locations during their navigation and claim more protection to safely conduct their online activities. We present, in this paper, a supportive, comprehensive and improved approach for privacy protection to allow users to be aware of the risks of their navigation and to give them full control on effective actions to address online privacy threats. Our approach is validated by a Mozilla Fire fox extension, No Trace, that provides the feasibility of the techniques, and whose efficiency is thoroughly tested on an extensive data set for effectiveness, impact on users experience and performances.