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11 votes
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FTC settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students
14 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
UK General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'
9 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
Apple’s ad-targeting crackdown shakes up ad market
22 votes -
Plex unveils it's ad supported VOD platform
9 votes -
Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
10 votes -
Google updates their political advertising policies, limits targeting capabilities, and expands which ads are covered by their transparency report
14 votes -
Online cesspool got you down? You can clean it up, for a price
6 votes -
New YouTube terms will allow Google to terminate accounts that it determines are not "commercially viable"
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10: YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its...
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10:
YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
However, it's not clear whether "Service" is YouTube or whole Google account. As we've seen in Markiplier affair, violating YouTube TOS meant that people lost access to their whole Google account - including gmail and gdrive.
37 votes -
Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
16 votes -
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
37 votes -
What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
8 votes -
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
6 votes -
Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
22 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 votes -
The iPod silhouettes
6 votes -
Twitter stock plunges 20% as company blames ad-targeting problems for earnings miss
10 votes -
Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
8 votes -
No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers
8 votes -
Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
10 votes -
Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
17 votes -
We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
13 votes -
Search advertising and information discovery: Are consumers averse to sponsored messages?
6 votes -
Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround
13 votes -
How Facebook tracks you on Android
8 votes -
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
5 votes -
New Hong Kong protest ads urging international help appear in 11 newspapers worldwide
10 votes -
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
10 votes -
In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
8 votes -
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out
8 votes -
Advertising is a cancer on society
44 votes -
Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
7 votes -
North Carolina gun shop billboard calls congresswomen ‘The 4 Horsemen’ in what anti-gun violence advocates call an incitement to violence
6 votes -
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
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
6 votes -
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appeals against Kimberly-Clark flushable wipes court decision
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
6 votes -
An interesting study into how ads are fingerprinting your devices
16 votes -
NRA shuts down production of NRATV
8 votes -
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
13 votes -
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
24 votes -
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
7 votes -
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
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.
33 votes -
Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
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
5 votes -
The North Face and Leo Burnett Tailor Made manipulated Wikipedia for marketing purposes
22 votes