Scientific papers

"Defining “Broken”: User Experiences and Remediation Tactics When Ad-Blocking or Tracking-Protection Tools Break a Website’s User Experience"
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-83-nisenoff.pdf
"Early detection of new web tracking methods across 1.5 million sites"
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4356699
"Client-side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites"
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13376 (not freely available)

"On the Impact of Internal Webpage Selection when Evaluating Ad Blocker Performance"
- https://www.ida.liu.se/~nikca89/papers/mascots22.pdf
"Towards Understanding First-Party Cookie Tracking in the Field"
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01498.pdf

"A Distributed Performance Measurement Tool for Tor Browser"
- https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/thesis-407.pdf
"Internet Privacy Implications"
- https://digital.wpi.edu/downloads/h989r614k
"The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion"
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09301.pdf

"Characterizing CNAME Cloaking-Based Tracking on the Web"
- https://tma.ifip.org/2020/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/06/tma2020-camera-paper66.pdf
"Demystifying content-blockers: A large scale study of actual performance gains"
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.01735.pdf
"Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers"
- https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/technologies/technologies-08-00018/article_deploy/technologies-08-00018.pdf
"Understanding the Performance Costs and Benefits of Privacy-focused Browser Extensions"
- https://kevin.borgolte.me/files/pdf/www2020-privacy-extensions.pdf
"What a Tangled Web We Weave: Understanding the Interconnectedness of the Third Party Cookie Ecosystem"
- https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/netsys/datasets/tracking-the-trackers-papers/tanged_web.pdf

"Analyse et comparaison des différents outils permettant de limiter ses traces numériques"
- https://dial.uclouvain.be/memoire/ucl/object/thesis:19078

"A comparison of web privacy protection techniques"
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06850.pdf
"Ad-blocking: A Study on Performance, Privacy and Counter-measures"
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03193.pdf
"Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?"
- https://tma.ifip.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tma2017_paper30.pdf
"Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools"
- https://publications.sba-research.org/publications/block_me_if_you_can.pdf

Other helpful reference materials

testachats (Belgium): Le bloqueur de publicité gratuit de Google Chrome ne bloque pratiquement aucune pub
- Translated excerpt: "If you're looking for a good free adblocker, choose uBlock Origin. This adblocker achieved the best results in terms of effectiveness in blocking advertisements, privacy, functionality and time saving."

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.