Customer Match will enable advertisers to get to us via our email addresses, which can be matched to signed-in users of its search engine, Gmail or YouTube.
Tag Archives: advertising
Windows 10 is NOT spying on you, Microsoft says
…but Windows will continue to collect your data, be it about system and application crashes or personalization data collected by Cortana. 
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.
Facebook: our cookies keep you safe from cyber terrorists!
Belgian data protection authority: You’re as bad as the NSA!!!
Facebook lets you opt-out of targeted ads but it will still collect your data
Most websites rely upon advertising revenue to survive and Facebook is no exception. Now it wants to boost that income by delivering ads based upon information obtained from what you’ve liked and shared on external sites.
After iOS 9 launches, Ad blockers top the App Store chart
Users lost no time in blockading their iPhones against adverts after Apple gave them the chance in the launch of iOS 9.
Apple iOS 9 Safari opens the flood gates to ad-blocking
Meanwhile, Chrome users got a scare when Google (inadvertently: WHEW!) disabled AdBlock in YouTube. Cue painfully long video ads.
Google ad profiling: what’s causing the gender discrimination?
Google displayed ads for a career coaching service for “$200k+” jobs 1852 times to the male profiles and only 318 times to female profiles. But is it Google’s fault?
Apple tweaks iOS 9 to stop advertisers getting our app data
Developers and advertisers have been eyeballing the apps we download to target-pitch their own wares. Apple are shuttering the peepshow.
Facebook to let marketers see what people are talking about
Pick your marketing keyword. Example: “frizz.” Facebook’s ready to offer (anonymised) data to the anti-frizz marketers about who’s saying what.