Advertising Stories for 2013

How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data 195
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data 75
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Google Starts Tracking Retail Store Visits On Android and iOS 157
The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks 388
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads 336
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users 115
Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results 185
Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising 127
When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out 193
Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads 274
NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself 150
Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads 136
More From Don Marti About Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 2 of 2) 53
Longtime Linux Advocate Don Marti Tells Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 1 of 2) 187
No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway 202
Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising 75
Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks 45
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts 125
Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs 147
Tumblr Follows Instagram - Reveals Plan For More Ads 75
Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point 82
Instagram Rolls Out Plan For In-Feed Advertisments 60
Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways 286
Facebook To Overhaul Data Use Policy 216
Google Patents "Scroogling" 135
The Next Frontier of Consumer Exploitation By Corporations 166
Obama, Romney Data Scientists Strike Out On Their Own 120
IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" 499
Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans 189
Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform 43
Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity 146
Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads 120
Ad Networks Lay Path To Million-Strong Browser Botnet 105
Consumer Rights Groups Take Issue With NTIA Code of Conduct For Mobile Apps 31
Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You 195
Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests 158
Zuckerberg: Ads On Instagram "When the Right Time Comes" 51
Strict New Anti-Spam Regulations In Canada 101
W3C Rejects Ad Industry's Do-Not-Track Proposal 162
How To Stop AT&T From Selling Your Private Data To Advertisers 88
Microsoft Integrating Xbox One Advertising With Kinect To Profile Users For Ads 300
Sky Deutschland Considering Using Bone Conduction To Force Ads On Train Riders 205
Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting 177
State Dept. Bureau Spent $630k On Facebook 'Likes' 99
Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search 169
Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads 192
FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results 230
Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook 158
Firefox Advances Do-Not-Track Technology 148
Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers 166
QANTAS Wants To Monitor Frequent Flyers' Home Internet 163
Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative 65
Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites 182
Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe 50
Twitter's New Money-Making Plan: Lead Generation 82
Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs 297
Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download 381
Facebook To Introduce Video Ads 180
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? 202
Even the Ad Industry Doesn't Know Who's Tracking You 98
Windows Store In-App Ad Revenue Plummets 196
Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine 194
Startup Founder Plays Tech Press Like a Fiddle 135
Millennials Willing To Share Personal Data — For a Price 88
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads 82
Google Forbids Advertising On Glass 274
Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest 128
Samsung Accused of Paying For Negative HTC Reviews 112
UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases 152
California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected 119
Google Glass and Surveillance Culture 318
European Carriers Complain To EU About Anti-Competitive Contracts With Apple 146
Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play 337
Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads 978
Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools 95
Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style 172
Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? 384
Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies 369
CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification 174
Ask Slashdot: I Just Need... Marketing? 212
MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign 513
Racism In Online Ad Targeting 474
60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers 61
Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' 98
The Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial 213
French ISP Blocking Web Ads By Default 317