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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think
Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…
Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough
“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.
Safari test points to a future with tracker-free ads
Apple thinks it has come up with a way for advertisers to track how well their ads are doing without compromising user privacy.
Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet
Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.
What your 99 cents gets you for buying an iOS adblocking app: adverts
Crystal, the top adblocking utility on iOS, agreed to a deal to let whitelisted ads through – but at least it offers an opt-out.
That’s “Dead PIGEON”, not “Dead PARROT”! 60 Second Security
Our weekly 1-minute security video. Forget dead parrots…here’s the Dead Pigeon sketch.
Facebook’s new ‘Atlas’ ad platform will follow us around on non-Facebook sites
The ad technology will enable Facebook partners to siphon user data from Facebook’s deep, deep sea and use it to super-target ads at users on and off its website, no matter what wireless or wired device we’re using.
Facebook wants to know why you hate specific adverts
Facebook’s not happy to just let us hide ads anymore; now it wants to know why we hid a given ad so it can purge newsfeeds of super-cruddy ads. 