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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2021
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Iskander Sanchez Rola, Antibes, FR;
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting user data privacy against anti-tracking evasion techniques for web trackers may include (i) detecting hypertext markup language (HTML) associated with a website displayed in a browser application, (ii) identifying one or more elements in the HTML capable of executing web tracking code from the website, (iii) determining, based on information describing scripting programming code responsible for embedding the HTML elements in the website, a presence of a hidden web tracking script, and (iv) performing a security action that protects against a potential invasion of user data privacy by preventing the hidden web tracking script from executing the web tracking code in the browser application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.