How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation ~tech facebook social media Article 6951 words 10 votes
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement ~tech social media privacy Article 233 words 29 votes
Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers ~tech security browsers Article 2280 words 18 votes
YouTube Vanced: A privacy-friendly YouTube app for Android with ads and telemetry stripped out ~tech android privacy social media Link 38 votes
YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them ~tech social media google Article 707 words 26 votes
Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates ~tech privacy ios.14 Link 12 votes
Ad agency Ogilvy abused Twitch donation messages to cause multiple streamers to advertise Burger King for only a few dollars ~tech social media Article 1598 words 9 votes
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%. ~tech privacy Article 2533 words 31 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut ~tech facebook social media Article 1604 words 8 votes
Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy ~tech facebook social media Article 1251 words 9 votes
Google has banned ZeroHedge from its ad platform for content policy violations related to misinformation about the Black Lives Matter protests ~tech google Article 591 words 19 votes
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
Banner blindness revisited: Users dodge ads on mobile and desktop ~tech internet Article 2028 words 7 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