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17 votes
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Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
27 votes -
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
26 votes -
Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more
11 votes -
Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users
12 votes -
Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview
@aissn: Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview. Thanks @gabrielluong https://t.co/cXOCB00tKk
23 votes -
Google sends a unique Chrome browser identifier through Chrome when you visit their websites
14 votes -
How ads follow you around the internet
8 votes -
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
12 votes -
Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
24 votes -
Every Google result now looks like an ad
@craigmod: There's something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?
27 votes -
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
7 votes -
App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
21 votes -
Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois
5 votes -
What we know about you when you click on this article—Vox has a pretty typical privacy policy. That doesn’t make it great.
11 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 -
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 -
Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
8 votes -
Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
10 votes -
Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround
13 votes -
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
5 votes -
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
10 votes -
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out
8 votes -
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
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 -
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 -
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome
55 votes -
Google changes policy on abortion advertising: will require advertisers who wish to run ads about abortion to apply for approval first
5 votes -
How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
14 votes -
Popular apps in Google's Play Store are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
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
37 votes -
Ad fraud scheme drained users' batteries and data by running hidden video ads in Android apps
5 votes -
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
14 votes -
Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook
17 votes