Privacy and Transparency in Browser-Based Gaming Platforms
Browser games make entertainment accessible, but their design also raises questions about cookies, account security, device identifiers, payment flows and user control.
Explore article →Privacy · Anonymity · Web Policy
When information becomes identity.
Explore the research legacy of 33 Bits of Entropy through reconstructed historical URLs and newly written essays on web privacy, data science and digital systems.
Archive notice: 33bits.org was historically a privacy-research blog. These pages are newly written summaries pointing to surviving original work, not reproductions or official statements of its former author.
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Privacy in interactive spaces
Two original features connect long-standing privacy research to modern browser games and digital card communities.
Digital Card Games, Pseudonyms, and Data Minimization
Online card-game communities illustrate how account names, device signals and repeated play can accumulate into a distinctive digital identity.
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Landmark research URLs
Historic permalink structures are preserved so earlier academic citations and references can lead to a relevant reading experience.
“Do Not Track” Explained
A historical introduction to proposed browser signals that would let people express a preference about behavioral tracking.
Explore article →Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?
A study of how recurring features in someone’s writing can be used to connect supposedly anonymous posts to a known author.
Explore article →De-anonymizing Social Networks
Research on the re-identification risks of publishing social-network structures without names or other direct identifiers.
Explore article →No Two Digital Cameras Are the Same: Fingerprinting Via Sensor Noise
An explanation of how subtle physical properties of imaging sensors can leave detectable patterns in photographs.
Explore article →Link Prediction by De-anonymization: How We Won the Kaggle Social Network Challenge
A case study in how an anonymized social graph can disclose hidden relationships when compared with external network data.
Explore article →Lendingclub.com: A De-anonymization Walkthrough
An early examination of how seemingly anonymized financial records can create privacy risks when linked with other information.
Explore article →Context & analysis
Independent editorial essays
Source-grounded explanations of data anonymization, browser standards, ethical search measurement and algorithmic fairness.
Fairness, Personalization, and Algorithmic Pricing
Online markets show why data-driven personalization needs more than technical accuracy: people also care about explanation, consistency and fairness.
Explore article →Ethical Web Measurement, Search Crawlers, and Consent
Search indexing and web measurement create public value, yet the way they gather and combine information deserves careful privacy analysis.
Explore article →From Do Not Track to Modern Browser Privacy
The rise of Do Not Track reveals why privacy needs both technical mechanisms and institutions capable of making them meaningful.
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