New Hong Kong protest ads urging international help appear in 11 newspapers worldwide ~news china hong kong.2019 protests hong kong Article 461 words 10 votes
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock ~tech social media Article 399 words 10 votes
In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores ~design advertising Article 1762 words 8 votes
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out ~tech privacy social media Article 1254 words 8 votes
Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection ~life.style Article 832 words 7 votes
North Carolina gun shop billboard calls congresswomen ‘The 4 Horsemen’ in what anti-gun violence advocates call an incitement to violence ~news usa.nc politics Article 460 words 6 votes
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud ~tech Article 2511 words 8 votes
Selling the Long Drink in the United States isn't just about marketing a booze product – it's about selling the country of Finland ~design advertising Article 623 words 6 votes
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appeals against Kimberly-Clark flushable wipes court decision ~news australia Article 639 words 5 votes
Danish court orders car dealer to compensate Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for using one of his works, Soleil Levant, as a backdrop for a commercial ~design advertising Article 260 words 6 votes
An interesting study into how ads are fingerprinting your devices ~comp privacy Article 392 words 16 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
Against advertising: Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. ~design advertising Article 1571 words 33 votes
Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to ~tech privacy amazon security.home Article 1420 words 18 votes
Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it ~tech Article 3202 words, published May 31 2019 5 votes
The North Face and Leo Burnett Tailor Made manipulated Wikipedia for marketing purposes ~tech Article 416 words 22 votes
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome ~tech google security browsers Article 588 words 55 votes
Apply directly to the forehead: Lamenting the death of the truly weird TV ad ~tv Article 1512 words 9 votes
Top streamers can be offered $50,000 an hour or more to play new games ~games Article 800 words 15 votes
Woke-washing: How brands are cashing in on the culture wars ~lgbt transgender Article 2345 words 14 votes
Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model ~comp privacy Article 741 words 4 votes
Google changes policy on abortion advertising: will require advertisers who wish to run ads about abortion to apply for approval first ~tech google Article 301 words 5 votes
Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices? ~health healthcare medicine Article 1125 words 6 votes
How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 406 words 14 votes
Fake news is getting a big boost from real companies ~news journalism usa politics Article 530 words 4 votes
Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool ~design advertising Article 941 words 11 votes
Steve Bannon caught on video admitting Breitbart lost 90% of advertising revenue due to boycott ~news journalism usa Article 284 words, published Apr 4 2019 21 votes
Even space isn’t safe from ads: Companies want to turn satellites into billboards ~space satellites Article 1609 words 15 votes
Popular apps in Google's Play Store are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud ~tech google android privacy Article 3256 words 9 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
Ad fraud scheme drained users' batteries and data by running hidden video ads in Android apps ~tech android Article 2433 words 5 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
Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun ~humanities religion Article 3703 words 25 votes
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules ~tech google Article 1354 words 14 votes
Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro’s Fox News shows; protesters urge other companies to join them ~tv Article 870 words 7 votes
Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook ~tech facebook social media Article 17 votes
Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, citing difficulty of complying with new transparency rules ~tech google Article 901 words 7 votes
Big pharma is partnering with Instagram influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices ~health Article 4860 words, published Feb 15 2019 15 votes
YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation ~tech social media Article 1213 words 8 votes
On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight ~tech social media Article 1392 words 39 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