Advertising Stories for 2018

How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
AI Mistakes Ad On a Bus For an Actual CEO, Then Publicly Shames Them For 'Jaywalking' 154
YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' 86
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race' 144
Kids' Apps Are Flooded With Ads 123
Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox 112
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
Pro-Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits 30 Million Daily Searches, Up 50% In a Year 141
Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns 30
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone 60
Xiaomi Admits To Putting Ads In the Settings Menu of Its Phones 46
NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft 141
Free Municipal Wi-Fi May Be the Next Front In the War Against Privacy 76
Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report 137
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
HUD Files Complaint Alleging Facebook Ad Tools Allow Housing Discrimination 102
Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series 184
Facebook Flat-Out 'Lies' About How Many People Can See Its Ads, Lawsuit Alleges 70
Google Releases a Searchable Database of US Political Ads 46
ISPs' Listed Speeds Drop Up To 41 Percent After UK Requires Accurate Advertising 68
Facebook Signs Agreement With Washington State To End Discriminatory Ad Targeting 86
Roku's New Wireless Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down, Turn Show Audio Up 84
Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic 182
AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough 290
Reddit Promises Post Sponsors a 'Walled Garden' of Conversation 63
Google AdSense Banned a Random Webpage About a 32-Year-Old Bill Because It Was About Sexual Abuse 110
Twitter Will Show Who Pays For Ads and How Much They Spend 111
Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners 234
Facebook Reverses Its Crypto Ad Ban 28
Time Warner Deal Aftermath: AT&T Is About To Give Free TV To Its Wireless Customers 51
Facebook May Ban Bad Businesses From Advertising 111
Washington Sues Facebook, Google For Failure To Disclose Political Ad Spending 97
Apple Is Reportedly Eyeing the Ad Business 38
More Firms Used Facebook To Block Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Alleges 223
Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms 74
Google Launches YouTube Music Service With Creepy AI To Predict Listening Habits 87
Should T-Mobile Stop Claiming It Has 'Best Unlimited Network'? 55
Ads Are Coming To Facebook Stories 31
Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads 323
Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID 227
Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating 125
Facebook Sued Over Fake Ads 63
Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google 151
German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal 134
Yahoo's New Privacy Policy Allows Data-Sharing With Verizon 38
Firefox 11.0 For iOS Arrives With Tracking Protection On By Default 16
Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting 257
Twitter Says It Will Comply With Honest Ads Act To Combat Russia Social Media Meddling 47
Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' 181
Facebook Demands ID Verifications For Big Pages, 'Issue' Ad Buyers 20
FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads 163
MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency 48
Facebook Will No Longer Allow Third-Party Data For Targeting Ads 58
Spotify Says 2 Million Users Hacked Apps To Suppress Ads On Its Free Service 62
Firefox In 2018: We'll Tackle Bad Ads, Breach Alerts, Autoplay Video, Says Mozilla 84
Ubuntu Community Considers a Crowd-Sourced Promo Video 40
Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps 43
Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads 106
Huawei Got People To Write Fake Reviews For An Unreleased Phone 39
YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos 314
DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop' 224
Facebook Is Banning Cryptocurrency, ICO Ads 41
DuckDuckGo App and Extension Upgrades Offer Privacy 'Beyond the Search Box' 48
Crooks Created 28 Fake Ad Agencies To Disguise Massive Malvertising Campaign 36
Burger King Makes the Case For Net Neutrality 246
Facebook Is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene,' Says Former Tech Insider 144
Google Pulls 60 Apps From Play Store After Malware Exposes Kids To Porn 49
Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads 310
Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine 177