Advertising Stories for 2015

ASUS To Include AdBlock Plus On All Phones and Tablets In 2016 189
FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet 120
AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy 523
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites 43
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles 197
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards 197
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode 262
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices 223
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds 56
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years 227
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly 153
Deja Vu: Microsoft's 2015 Surface Book Ad and Apple's 2014 'Your Verse' iPad Ad 71
In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users 398
Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile 98
Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads 578
German Publisher Axel Springer Bans Adblocking Users From Bild Website 474
Apple Approves, Then Removes In-App Ad Blocker 85
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability 85
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data 58
Chrome AdBlock Joining Acceptable Ads Program (And Sold To Anonymous Company) 352
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China 109
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
AdBlock Plus To Introduce Independent Board To Oversee Acceptable Ads Program 263
Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR 103
Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising 60
Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit 111
iOS Ad Blocker "Crystal" Will Let Companies Pay To Show You Ads 229
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory 410
AdBlock Plus Defends Ad Blocking, Applauds Marco Arment 351
AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers 229
Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days 236
One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store 241
DNA-Based Advertising Redefines Commercial "Ad-Targeting" 31
Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time 102
YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome 296
Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads 92
Inside the Booming, Unhinged, and Dangerous Malvertising Menace 259
Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router 198
Amazon To Stop Accepting Flash Ads 221
New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements 36
Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof 105
Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? 519
Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent 528
Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads 77
Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit 394
Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile 259
Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads 129
New Facebook Video Controls Let You Limit Viewing By Gender and Age 90
FTC Accuses LifeLock of False Advertising Again 54
Class Action Filed Against Sling Media 112
Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention 351
Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures 63
Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent 327
Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google 233
Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections 61
Avira Wins Case Upholding Its Right To Block Adware 64
How Television Is Fighting Off the Internet 194
Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More 70
SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring 124
Adblock Plus Can Now Be Rolled Out To Every Single Employee In a Company 127
iOS 9 To Have Ad Blocking Capabilities 161
Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost 231
SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims 172
Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content 98
Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising 318
SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] 384
Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops 86
Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court 321
Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users 531
Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android 111
Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral 618
European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google 198
Researchers Detect Android Apps That Connect to User Tracking and Ad Sites 74
Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly 51
How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial 216
German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal 286
Google To Offer Ad-Free YouTube - At a Price 358
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Rules Bell's Targeted Ad Program Violates the Law 39
Consumer Groups Bemoan Google's "Deceptive" Ads for Kids In FTC Complaint 92
Microsoft To Stop Enabling 'Do Not Track' By Default 64
Report: Facebook Tracks Visitors Who Have Opted Out, Violating EU Law 40
How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks 113
NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? 79
FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use" 239
That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was 201
Google Reverses Stance, Allows Porn On Blogger After Backlash 102
Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 188
Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims 161
Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers 248
AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy 227
Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video 370
Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? 223
Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock 619
Test Shows Big Data Text Analysis Inconsistent, Inaccurate 60
Fixing Verizon's Supercookie 111
Healthcare.gov Sends Personal Data To Over a Dozen Tracking Websites 204
Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads 50
Google Finally Quashes Month-Old Malvertising Campaign 56
Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies 70
Would Twitter Make President Obama 'Follow' the Tea Party If the Price Is Right? 121
Bitcoin Gets Its First TV Ads 127