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Facebook debuts scam ads reporting tool
Adverts on Facebook featuring fake celebrity endorsements scam people out of their savings, and Facebook is now doing something about it.
Google warning: Fix your dodgy ads within 30 days or get banned
Having taken what it thought was a decisive swipe at the problem of “abusive” advertising a year ago, Google now says next month’s Chrome 71 will unleash an even tougher crackdown.
Firefox 63 gets tough with trackers
Mozilla’s Enhanced Tracking Protection is going mainstream.
Instagram tests sharing your location history with Facebook
Instagram is testing Facebook Location History – which allows the tracking of precise locations from your device – in its app.
Adblocking and browser privacy can be bypassed, researchers find
Virtually every desktop browser and adblocker can have its ad-tracking privacy or security bypassed by at least one software technique, a new study has found.
Brave browser starts feeding ads to willing guinea pigs
Hands up who wants to sign up to receive advertising as they browse the internet? Probably no-one, and yet that’s exactly what the new Brave browser is asking its users to do.
Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
Mozilla promises all the revenue-generating analytics, none of the privacy-skewering.
YouTube illegally collects data from kids, group claims
A coalition has filed a complaint with the FTC, charging that Google’s YouTube is breaking COPPA: the law to protect children’s privacy.
Reddit launches Upvoted – a site where you can’t upvote or comment on stories
What people see on Reddit is driven by users. So is it odd that Upvoted doesn’t allow users to comment on stories or vote them up or down?