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• Yash Vekaria (University of California, Davis)
• Yohan Beugin (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
• Shaoor Munir (University of California, Davis)
• Gunes Acar (Radboud University)
• Nataliia Bielova (Inria Centre at Université Côte d’Azur)
• Steven Englehardt (Independent Researcher)
• Umar Iqbal (Washington University in St. Louis)
• Alexandros Kapravelos (North Carolina State University)
• Pierre Laperdrix (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS)
• Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University)
• Jason Polakis (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Franziska Roesner (University of Washington)
• Zubair Shafiq (University of California, Davis)
• Sebastian Zimmeck (Wesleyan University)

Please cite the following preprint if you are using this paper in academic research:

@misc{sokAdvancesOpenProblemsWebTracking2025,
      title = {SoK: Advances and Open Problem in Web Tracking},
      author = {Yash Vekaria and Yohan Beugin and Shaoor Munir and Gunes Acar and Nataliia Bielova and Steven Englehardt and Umar Iqbal and Alexandros Kapravelos and Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis and Jason Polakis and Franziska Roesner and Zubair Shafiq and Sebastian Zimmeck},
      year = {2025},
      month = june,
      eprint = {2506.14057},
      publisher = {arXiv},
      doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2506.14057},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
}