Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users

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Sheharbano Khattak, David Fifield, Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Vern Paxson, Steven J. Murdoch, and Damon McCoy

The utility of anonymous communication is undermined by a growing number of websites treating users of such services in a degraded fashion…We conduct the first study to methodically enumerate and characterize the treatment of anonymous users as second-class Web citizens in the context of Tor.