Items tagged with Advertising
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Zak Killian - Mon, Feb 10, 2025
If you've ever had some time to kill and tried to entertain yourself by downloading a few games on your phone, you'll already be familiar with the phenomenon -- every few stages, a full-screen video ad pops up, and you can't skip it for at...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Jul 23, 2024
Google’s effort to end support for the use of cookies for user tracking in its Chrome web browser won’t be moving forward as the company originally planned. This initiative, dubbed Privacy Sandbox, has had several delays since it was...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Feb 16, 2024
Users looking to take advantage of the boosted posts feature on Meta platforms, such as Facebook, will need to take some extra steps to avoid paying extra fees. Meta says that boosted posts are often used by small businesses as a way of...
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Nathan Wasson - Fri, Feb 03, 2023
Last year saw a rise in threat actors abusing Microsoft Office macros to infect their victims’ systems with malware, prompting Microsoft to block macros embedded in documents downloaded from the internet. In response, threat actors have...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Jan 24, 2023
Over the past week, Gmail users have been reporting abuse of the Google Ads platform. However, rather than conducting ad fraud or placing ads that distribute malware, the actors behind this recent activity are leveraging the Google Ads...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Jan 24, 2023
A massive ad fraud campaign has shut down after undergoing mitigation efforts organized by HUMAN, cybersecurity firm that works to distinguish human beings from bots for the purpose of disrupting cybercrime. The ad fraud campaign, dubbed...
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Lane Babuder - Sun, Aug 28, 2022
Do you ever feel like company advertisers are doing more than listening to you? Let's face it, they probably are. You might be concerned to hear that your pocket smart device is also tracking where you are. This is not new information for...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, Aug 15, 2022
Internal moves and discussions at Apple may indicate that the company is moving to grow its advertising business. Apple already generates around $4 billion in ad revenue every year. However, according to Bloomberg, Apple’s vice president...
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Nathan Wasson - Fri, May 20, 2022
Tech companies are often inconsistent in their stances towards privacy. Take Google for example; the web search and advertising giant is forcing better data collection and sharing transparency in the Google Play Store and recently joined...
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Marco Chiappetta - Sat, May 08, 2021
The recent feud between Apple and Facebook has been well documented. The companies have been at odd for years, but tensions between the two came to a head most recently when Apple detailed its newest privacy guidelines at WWDC 2020. Those...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Feb 18, 2021
The battle for paying new publishers in Australia has ramped up today after Facebook took some drastic measures. The social media company has now blocked Australian news from being shared on the platform globally after the threat of new...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Feb 08, 2021
If you looked away for a split second, you might have missed it, but Reddit ran its first Super Bowl (or "Superb Owl") advertisement yesterday. Within a flash, a text box that looked something like a Reddit post appeared. During the short...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Feb 01, 2021
Facebook has been working hard to adhere to Apple's new privacy policy that will soon be implemented across its iOS and iPadOS platforms. Apple's goal is to give users more granular control over what personally-identifiable data can be...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Jan 25, 2021
Cookies of the edible kind are delicious and comforting, whereas cookies of the technological kind can save, store, and track data in web browsers across browsing sessions. Companies can use them for good or bad things depending on the...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jan 18, 2021
Both Facebook and Google have come under scrutiny in recent years over antitrust and privacy abuses. In late October, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company was abusing...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Oct 09, 2017
Months after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election concluded, there are still allegations that Russia meddled in the process to help sway voter opinion. Google has been running an investigation to see whether Russian operatives might have...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 17, 2017
Companies can be a little overzealous when it comes to serving up ads. Even so, HTC appeared to hit a new low when its TouchPal keyboard that comes pre-installed on some Android devices started pushing out ads to users. This did not sit...
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Rob Williams - Wed, Jul 12, 2017
Feel left out not seeing advertisements in Facebook's Messenger? Don't fret: that's going to be changing real soon. Following what Facebook touts as being a successful test in Australia and Thailand, the social media giant is planning to...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 01, 2017
It is often said in regards to free online services such as Facebook that if you are not paying for a product, then you are the product. Fair enough, but that does not mean there are no lines that can be crossed. Facebook seems to have...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Feb 17, 2017
YouTube remains a free service for all (well, as long as you aren’t a subscriber to YouTube Red), so we have to put up with ads from a time to time to enjoy our daily allotment of cat videos and other time wasters. However, Google has...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 09, 2017
In no uncertain terms, Facebook says "discriminatory advertising has no place" on the world's largest social network. To keep it off of there, Facebook last fall started providing better education to advertisers about its prohibition...
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Rob Williams - Wed, Nov 23, 2016
This past weekend, we talked about how Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg were planning to combat the "fake news" problem we've likely all seen on a regular basis. This comes hot on the heels of Donald Trump becoming president-elect...
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