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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2017
Finjan Mobile, Inc., East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scot Robinson, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
Patrick Conlin, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Jules Panopoulos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Julie Mar-Spinola, San Jose, CA (US);
Finjan Mobile, Inc., East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for blocking web page trackers by a web browser of a mobile device, including loading a web page on a mobile device, scanning the web page to detect scripts in the web page, for each detected script, comparing content of the script with a list of URL connections, to detect trackers present in the script, each URL connection being associated with a corresponding tracker, storing the detected trackers, displaying the stored trackers to a user, enabling a user to selectively block, via said mobile device, one or more of the displayed trackers, and reloading the web page, comprising, for each selected tracker to block, rejecting the URL connection corresponding to the selected tracker.