Why don't we just ban targeted advertising? ~tech privacy internet social media Article 3625 words 27 votes
Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more ~tech apple.app store Article 373 words 11 votes
App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry ~tech privacy apple ios.13 Article 631 words 21 votes
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions ~tech facebook social media Article 5950 words 11 votes
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby ~tech google.maps Article 13 votes
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers ~tech browsers Article 3326 words, published Jun 4 2019 24 votes
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3 ~tech google browsers Article 1021 words 7 votes
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase ~tech browsers internet Article 881 words 37 votes
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome ~tech google security browsers Article 588 words 55 votes
How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 406 words 14 votes
The golden age of YouTube is over - The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content ~tech google social media Article 4243 words 37 votes
Two devs automated the process of generating and publishing "garbage" mobile slot machine games on Google Play, and made over $50,000 ~games Article 1759 words 28 votes
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules ~tech google Article 1354 words 14 votes
YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation ~tech social media Article 1213 words 8 votes
Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly ~tech facebook social media Article 1499 words 10 votes
Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage ~tech browsers Link 36 votes
Adblockers Performance Study - A detailed analysis of the performance of some of the most popular content-blocker engines ~tech browsers Link 18 votes
If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars ~tech facebook social media Article 2014 words 12 votes
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers ~tech Article 339 words 55 votes
Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 1337 words 8 votes
Apple's latest anti-tracking feature in Safari takes toll on digital advertising ~tech apple privacy browsers Article 597 words, published Nov 1 2018 28 votes
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads, and they seem to be working ~tech amazon Article 1018 words 19 votes
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales ~tech google privacy Article 92 words 26 votes
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance ~tech google Article 408 words 17 votes
YouTube is allowing anti-gay ads to be run on queer-related content, and the content creators can't stop it ~lgbt Video 13:12 18 votes
Geofencing too far? Visiting the ER can influence which advertisements you get ~tech Article 421 words 9 votes