Publications

Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
Gianluca Anselmi, Yash Vekaria, Alexander D’Souza, Patricia Callejo, Anna Maria Mandalari, Zubair Shafiq
(*joint first-authors)
24th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2024
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The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding the Abuse of Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain
Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq
45th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2024
[PDF] [Video] [Code] [Dataset]

Turning the Tide on Dark Pools? Towards Multi-Stakeholder Vulnerability Notifications in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain
Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq
Under Submission
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Auditing the Compliance and Enforcement of Twitter’s Advertising Policies
Yash Vekaria, Zubair Shafiq, Savvas Zannettou
Under Submission
[PDF]

Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media
Yash Vekaria, Vibhor Agarwal, Pushkal Agarwal, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Sakthi Balan Muthiah, Nishanth Sastry, Nicolas Kourtellis
13th ACM Web Science Conference (Virtual), 2021
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Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites
Vibhor Agarwal, Yash Vekaria, Pushkal Agarwal, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Sakthi Balan Muthiah, Nishanth Sastry, Nicolas Kourtellis
15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Virtual), 2021
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A Metadata-based Event Detection Method using Temporal Herding Factor and Social Synchrony on Twitter Data
Nirmal Kumar Sivaraman, Vibhor Agarwal, Yash Vekaria, Sakthi Balan Muthiah
15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) (Virtual), 2021
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