Towards a global perspective on web tracking

@article{Samarasinghe2019TowardsAG,
  title={Towards a global perspective on web tracking},
  author={Nayanamana Samarasinghe and Mohammad Mannan},
  journal={Comput. Secur.},
  year={2019},
  volume={87}
}
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