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WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Atsuyuki Miyai, Zaiying Zhao, Kazuki Egashira, Atsuki Sato, Tatsumi Sunada, Shota Onohara, Hiromasa Yamanishi, Mashiro Toyooka, Kunato Nishina, Ryoma Maeda, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01952

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Powered by a large language model (LLM), a web browsing agent operates web browsers in a human-like manner and offers a highly transparent path toward automating a wide range of everyday tasks. As web agents become increasingly capable and demonstrate proficiency in general browsing tasks, a critical question emerges: Can they go beyond general browsing to robustly handle tasks that are tedious and complex, or chores that humans often avoid doing themselves? In this paper, we introduce WebChore…

Researchers found that both #Meta snd #Yandex link(ed) IDs between browsers and their native apps by local communication on #Android devices.
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Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20 static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
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How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Brian Tang, Duc Bui, Kang G. Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08996 https://arxi…

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Online services provide users with cookie banners to accept/reject the cookies placed on their web browsers. Despite the increased adoption of cookie banners, little has been done to ensure that cookie consent is compliant with privacy laws around the globe. Prior studies have found that cookies are often placed on browsers even after their explicit rejection by users. These inconsistencies in cookie banner behavior circumvent users' consent preferences and are known as cookie consent violation…