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Nowadays, with around 200 million people regularly using such tools, said economic model is in danger.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>In this article, we investigate an Internet technology that targets users who are not, in general, against advertising, accept the trade-off that comes with the \u201cfree\u201d content, but\u2014for privacy concerns\u2014they wish to exert fine-grained control over tracking. Our working assumption is that some categories of web pages (e.g., related to health or religion) are more privacy-sensitive to users than others (e.g., about education or science). Capitalizing on this, we propose a technology that allows users to specify the categories of web pages that are privacy-sensitive to them and block the trackers present on such web pages only. As tracking is prevented by blocking network connections of third-party domains, we avoid not only tracking but also third-party ads. Since users continue receiving ads on those web pages that belong to non-sensitive categories, our approach may provide a better point of operation within the trade-off between user privacy and the Web economy. To test the appropriateness and feasibility of our solution, we implemented it as a Web-browser plug-in, which is currently available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Experimental results from the collected data of 746 users during one year show that only 16.25% of ads are blocked by our tool, which seems to indicate that the economic impact of the ad-blocking exerted by privacy-sensitive users could be significantly reduced.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/3158372","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,1]],"date-time":"2018-10-01T12:15:55Z","timestamp":1538396155000},"page":"1-25","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Fine-Grained Control over Tracking to Support the Ad-Based Web Economy"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jagdish Prasad","family":"Achara","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"INRIA Grenoble, Montbonnot, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Javier","family":"Parra-Arnau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INRIA Grenoble, Montbonnot, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Claude","family":"Castelluccia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INRIA Grenoble, Montbonnot, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","unstructured":"Adblock plus. 2016. 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