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Mozilla Asks: Will Google's Privacy Sandbox Protect Advertisers (and Google) More than You? 56
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
Discord To Start Showing Ads This Week After History of Shunning Them 70
Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads 14
Microsoft Criticized For Chrome Popup Ads Resembling Malware That Urge Users to Switch to Bing 32
Does Reddit Represent the Return of the Junk Stock IPO? 74
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food On DoorDash and Grubhub 48
Amazon Sued Over Prime Video Ads 68
The Tech Company Super Bowl Ads of 2024 77
YouTube Begins New Wave of Slowdowns For Users With Ad Blockers Enabled 307
Google's Chrome Begins Purging Third-Party Cookies 19
Google Might Already Be Replacing Some Ad Sales Jobs With AI 22
Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs 23
Meta Knowingly Collected Data on Pre-Teens, Unredacted Evidence From Lawsuit Shows 56
After Luring Customers With Low Prices, Amazon Stuffs Fire TVs With Ads 81
YouTube Crackdown Leads To 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Ad Blocker Uninstalls 208
When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 60
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
When Supermarket Freezer Doors Have Screens With Ads 99
'Pause Ads' Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max As Streamers Seek New Revenue 53
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
Comcast Resists Call To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims 39
Facebook's Sexist, Ageist Ad-Targeting Violates California Law, Court Finds 71
Google Made Billions With Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm, Witness Testifies 46
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data 31
Norway Wants Facebook Behavioral Advertising Banned Across Europe 8
Bing Chat Responses Infiltrated By Ads Pushing Malware 14
Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity 54
FTC Judge Decides Intuit's 'Free' TurboTax Ads Did Mislead Consumers 30
Are We Seeing the End of the Googleverse? 133
YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says 8
Walmart Is Bringing Digital Ads To An Aisle Near You 46
FTX's Celebrity Endorser Tom Brady Faces Worthless Stock, Lawsuits 83
YouTube Could Be Testing a Three-Strikes Policy For Ad Blocking 205
Australia Urged To Ban Online Gambling Ads To Curb Growing Addiction 29
Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports 158
Video Ads Are Coming To All Your Uber Apps 57
Twitch Walks Back Controversial Ad Rules Policy 44
Amazon Prime Video Is Reportedly Planning An Ad-Supported Tier 27
Gambling Firm Allegedly Paid Blogs To Link New Members To Its Online Games 12
America's FTC Warns Businesses Not to Use AI to Harm Consumers 26
What Happens When AI Tries to Generate a Pizza Commercial? 61
Gmail Is Starting To Show Ads In the Middle of the Inbox 65
Facebook Advertisers Angry About Major Glitch That Temporarily Spiked Prices 45
Tax-Filing Sites Ask to Blab Your Financial Info to 'Business Partners' 34
Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection 27
Microsoft Slips Ads Into AI-Powered Bing Chat 56
Google Launches Ads Transparency Center As a Searchable Database 7
Is Amazon Building a New AI-Powered Web Browser? 31
Vivaldi Co-Founder: Advertisers 'Stole the Internet From Us' 56
What Can't You Say on YouTube? Its Content Creators Aren't Sure 122
Meta Announces Paid Subscriptions Offering Extra Verification, Promotion, Protection, Support 98
Microsoft Proposes AI Ads In Bing 23
Super Bowl Ads Feature 'Mario Rap', Pixel Phone, Two Batmen, and Warnings of 'Premature Electrification' 75
No Cryptocurrency Super Bowl Ads Have Been Purchased This Year 20
How to Handle Web Sites Asking for Your Email Address 117
70% of Drugs Advertised On TV Are of 'Low Therapeutic Value,' Study Finds 107
France Fines Apple for Illegally Harvesting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads 15
Inspired by Amazon, Paid Promotions Spread to Other Online Shopping Sites in 2022 12
A Startup Wants To Pay You To Share Your Data For Advertising 47
Even the FBI Says You Should Use An Ad Blocker 87
Disney+ Launches Its Ad-Supported Tier To Compete With Netflix 34
FTC Probes 'Possible Misconduct' In Cryptocurrency Advertising 12
Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used 39
It's Not Your Imagination. Shopping on Amazon Has Gotten Worse 106
KFC Blames Semi-Automated Bot for Insensitive App Alert on Kristallnacht 129
Google Ad For GIMP.org Served Info-Stealing Malware Via Lookalike 19
'How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World' 206
Meta's New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads 53
Space Billboards Could Cost $65 Million and Still Turn a Profit 118
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads 17
The $300B Google-Meta Advertising Duopoly is Under Attack 34
Facebook 'Repeatedly and Intentionally' Violated Washington's Political Ad Law, Judge Rules 49
Snap's Chief Business Officer Is Leaving To Run Ads On Netflix 17
Privacy Complaint Targets Google Over Unsolicited Ad Emails 20
Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone 120
Visa, Mastercard Suspend Payment For Ad Purchases On PornHub and MindGeek 90
Companies are Subtly Tricking Users Online with 'Dark Patterns' 46
An Ad Company Is Teaming Up With US Carriers To Take Over Your Lock Screen 126
Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company To Harvest User Data For Months 6
T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers 30
Netflix Confirms Plans For Ad-Supported Service, Begins Second Round of Layoffs 78
German Regulators Open Investigation Into Apple's App Tracking Transparency 24
Vodafone Plans Carrier-Level User Tracking For Targeted Ads 44
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
Google Messages RCS Is Being Abused For Ads In India 11
The US Army's Unsettling New Recruitment Video for Psychological Warfare 189
Lawmakers Offer Bill To Regulate Volume of Commercials On Streaming Services 103
TikTok Plans To Share Ad Revenue With Creators For the First Time 10
Twitter Admits To Risk of Losing Advertisers, Staff Due To Musk Takeover 214
Researchers Find Amazon Uses Alexa Voice Data To Target You With Ads 36
Netflix Rocked By Subscriber Loss, May Offer Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans 181
Microsoft Is Building An Ad Program That Will Let Brands Advertise In Xbox Games 19
TikTok's Ad Revenue To Surpass Twitter, Snapchat Combined In 2022 17
Chrome's 'Topics' Advertising System Is Here, Whether You Want It Or Not 86
False Advertising To Call Software Open Source When It's Not, Says Court 20
Has Apple's 'Pro' Branding Lost All Meaning? 84
Shoppers React as Grocers Replace Freezer Doors with Screens Playing Ads 379
Facebook and YouTube Block RT, Other Russian Channels From Earning Ad Dollars 65
Zuckerberg's Facebook Burns $500 Billion Becoming 'Meta'. Are They In Trouble? 169
Google to Overhaul Ad-Tracking on Android Phones Used by Billions 22
Wordle Is Watching You 69
Coinbase Swears This All Isn't Like the Dotcom Bubble After Super Bowl Ad SNAFU 81
EV Start-up Polestar Takes Shots At Tesla, Musk and Volkswagen In Super Bowl Ad 55
This Year's Super Bowl Broadcast May Seem 'Crypto-Happy'. But the NFL Isn't 65
Mozilla and Meta (Formerly Facebook) Propose New Privacy-Preserving Ad Technology 120
Meta Threatens To Pull Facebook and Instagram From Europe If It Can't Target Ads 252
What Would Happens To Meta and Google If Privacy Invasion Were Criminalized? 101
Six Reasons Meta (Formerly Facebook) is In Trouble 117
How Apple's Privacy Push Cost Meta $10 Billion 78
Regulators Find Europe's Ad-Tech Industry Acted Unlawfully 17
Why Is Matt Damon Shilling For Crypto? 108
KDE-Powering Qt's New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps 96
Some Roku Smart TVs Are Now Showing Banner Ads Over Live TV 57
Zuckerberg and Pichai Allegedly Signed Off On Illegal Facebook-Google Ad Deal 23
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
Meta Allows More Cryptocurrency Ads 32
The 'Dude, You're Getting a Dell' Guy Returns 66
Peloton Joins Companies Blaming Lower Earnings on Apple's Tracking Restrictions 74
IAB Europe Says It's Expecting To Be Found In Breach of GDPR 29
Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands 18
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' 33
Cadbury Site Puts Bollywood Star in AI-Generated Ads For Local Businesses 17
Researchers Show Facebook's Ad Tools Can Target a Single User 23
Former Employees Allege Most of Ozy's 26M Newsletter Subscribers Were Purchased, Borrowed, or Kept Against Their Will 34
Google and YouTube Will Cut Off Ad Money For Climate Change Deniers 248
Facebook Has Trackers in 25% of Websites and 61% of the Most Popular Apps 81
Will Google's Tensor Chip Spell Trouble for 5G? 140
After Apple's 'App Tracking Transparency', Advertisers Spent More Money Targeting Android Users 21
Advertisers Concerned iCloud Private Relay Could Put An End To Fingerprinting 84
Privacy-Focused Tech Companies Call For Ban On Targeted Advertising 53
TV-Style Commercials Are Coming To Console Games 140
Carrier Caught Injecting 'SMS AD' Into Google Verification Code Message 63
Facebook's First Oculus Ads Partner Is Already Retreating 30
Firefox Begins Testing Sponsors on Some Users' Default Home Page/New Tab Pages 134
YouTube Channel Remembers and Preserves Ads From US Military's TV Service 18
Facebook and Instagram Confront Historically Bad 'Reputational Crisis' in the Middle East 81
YouTube Takes Down Ads Showing Belarusian Blogger's Possibly-Forced Confession Video 39
Amazon's Ad Revenue Is Now Twice As Big As Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest Combined 11
YouTube Can Now Monetize Smaller Creators' Videos All Around the World 117
Vizio Makes Nearly As Much Money From Ads and Data As It Does From TVs 55
Ford Patents Tech That Could Scan Billboards and Show Associated In-Car Ads 160
Apple Puts More Advertisements In App Store After Ad-Tracking Ban 24
Charter Must Pay $19 Million For Tricking Customers Into Switching ISPs 34
Google Accused of Secret Program Giving Them an Unfair Advantage in Ad-Buying 26
Major Advertiser Works With China to Try Bypassing Apple's Privacy Rules 86
Congress Says Foreign Intel Services Could Abuse Ad Networks For Spying 30
Privacy Advocate Confronts ACLU Over Its Use of Google and Facebook's Targeted Advertising 20
California Bans 'Dark Patterns' That Trick Users Into Giving Away Their Personal Data 56
UK Businesses Caught Buying Five-Star Google Reviews 50
'I Opened Microsoft Edge and Apple Got Angry' 117
Can Users Poison the Data Big Tech Uses to Surveil Them? 79
Facebook Lifts Political Ad Ban 27
Did Facebook Inflate Its Advertising Metrics? 53
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them 273
Google Gave Top Spot For 'Home Depot' Searches to a Malicious Ad 69
Google Says It May Have Found a Privacy-Friendly Substitute To Cookies 158
Uber Wasted $100 Million On Useless Digital Ad Campaigns 81
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? 238
Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting In Unsealed Remarks 13
Apple-Criticizing Banner Ads Now Added to Some of Facebook's iOS Apps 82
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
Third Monolith Reappears, Fourth and Fifth Monoliths Discovered 103
Is Microsoft's 'Find Your Joy' Holiday Ad Sad? 52
Does Digital Advertising Actually Work? 95
hCaptcha Runs On 15% Of the Internet 66
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Microsoft Is Showing Windows 10 Users Full-Screen Ads For Its Edge Browser 148
Google Sued After Mobile Allowances Eaten Up By Hidden Data Transfers 54
Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month 51
Apple Brings Back the PC Guy To Boast About M1 Performance 51
How Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75 Million On Targeted Anti-Trump Ads 78
Facebook Tells Academics To Stop Monitoring Its Political Ads 63
Facebook Demands Shutdown of Research Project Into Its Targeting of Political Ads 41
Adblockers Installed 300,000 Times Are Malicious and Should Be Removed Now 33
Microsoft Forces Windows 10 Restarts -- To Install 'Unsolicited, Unwanted' Office Apps 292
A Chicken Nugget Was Just Launched Into Space 36
Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine Ads, But Not Organic Misinformation 62
UK Ad Authority Bans Misleading Homescapes and Gardenscapes Ads 68
Facebook Widens Ban On Political Ads As Alarm Rises Over Election 105
Facebook Revenue Chief Says Ad-Supported Model Is 'Under Assault' Amid Apple Privacy Changes 142
'Google and Facebook's Ad Business Might Not Survive Amazon' 51
Facebook Will Ban Ads That Wrongly Claim Election Victory 145
NASA Launches New $23 Million Toilet to International Space Station 33
While Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Announce Hate Speech Action, Some Advertisers Remain Skeptical 184
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple Urged to Stop Advertising to Minors 64
NASA To Film an Estee Lauder Ad In Space As the ISS Opens For Business 53
Joe Biden's Team Brings Digital Campaign Signs To 'Animal Crossing' 133
Are Apple's Privacy Changes Hypocritical, Unfair to Facebook and Advertising Companies? 168
Burger King Brags About Exploiting Twitch To Advertise To Kids For Cheap 29
'Stalkerware' Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google's Ad Ban 25
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads 23
Google Starts Testing Its Replacement for Third-Party Cookies for Chrome 72
Facebook Says Apple's iOS 14 Changes Could Hurt Its Ad Targeting 25
Trump and Biden Attack Social Media - By Running Ads on Social Media 168
Disney Reportedly Joins Facebook Boycott, Slashes Ad Spending 84
German Court Bans Tesla Ad Statements Related To Autonomous Driving 3
Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of US Election 59
Facebook Boycott Leaders 'Disappointed' After Meeting With Zuckerberg, Sandberg 141
Coca-Cola, Hershey's, Starbucks: More Major Advertisers Are Now Boycotting Facebook 228
Apple Will Force Apps to Ask for Permission Before Tracking Users 47
Facebook Advertising Boycott Targets Misinformation and Hate Speech 95
Facebook Takes Down Trump Ads Featuring Symbol Used By Nazis To Mark Political Prisoners 440
Facebook To Let Users Turn Off Political Ads 58
States Are Leaning Toward a Push To Break Up Google's Ad Tech Business 29
Facebook To Block Ads From State-Controlled Media Entities In the US 36
Comcast, Charter and ViacomCBS Join Forces to Make TV Commercials More Targeted 44
Proposed Bill Would Ban Microtargeting of Political Advertisements 120
AT&T To Drop Misleading '5G Evolution' Marketing For Non-5G Networks 39
Austrian Citizen Files GDPR Legal Complaint Over Android Advertising ID 43
Quibi, JetBlue and Others Gave Away Email Addresses, Report Says 13
Microsoft Is Bombarding Chrome-Using Outlook.com Visitors With Ads For Edge 83
Ad Firms Are Exploring Deepfaked Commercials 35
Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors' Pay While Spending Millions On Political Ads 132
Facebook Gets Rid of 'Pseudoscience' Ad-Targeting Category 46
Twitter Accused of Obliterating Its Users' Privacy Choices 102
Whatever Happened to Ashley Madison? Affairs in the Time of Coronavirus 67
US Officials Use Mobile Ad Location Data to Study How COVID-19 Spreads 66
Doc Searls: 'Zoom Needs to Clean Up Its Privacy Act' 32
Fox Buys Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service Tubi For $440 Million 24
'Ring' Upgrades Privacy Settings After Accusations It Shares Data With Facebook and Google 26
Redbox Enters the Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Market 29
New Email-Based Extortion Scheme Targets Website Owners Serving Ads Via Google AdSense 16
Twitter Ran Ads For Human Organs Because Money Is Money 54
Facebook Says Political Candidates Can Use Paid Memes 21
500 Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data From Millions of Users 26
The Windows 10 Start Menu Now Harasses Firefox Users 122
Google's Heart-Warming Super Bowl Ad Called 'Evil' 102
The Mysterious Disappearance of Google's Click Metric 28
Justice Department Is Meeting State AG Offices Tuesday To Discuss If Google Broke Antitrust Law 16
YouTube Reveals Revenue For First Time: $15.1 Billion In 2019 73
2000: The Year the Startup Super Bowl Ads Failed 31
Netflix Is Still Saying 'No' To Ads 65
Facebook Won't Put Ads in WhatsApp -- For Now 29
NBC's New Peacock Streaming Service Is Just One Big Ad-Injection Machine 114
Dating and Fertility Apps Among Those Snitching To 'Out of Control' Ad Tech, Report Finds 12
How Facebook Tried To Defend Its Privacy Policies at CES 33
Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020 54
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps 176
Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay To Subscribe To YouTube? 177
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
E-Scooter Company 'Unicorn' Goes Bust After Spending Big On Facebook Ads 65
Google Halts Political Ads In Singapore As Election Looms 12
Google, Facebook In EU Probe Over User Data 14
Apple's and Microsoft's 2019 Holiday Ads: Naughty Or Nice? 71

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