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Tag Archives: Online Advertising
Mozilla’s bizarre robo-surfer project demonstrates ad snooping
In an effort to show you how advertisers snoop on your surfing activity, Mozilla is offering you the chance to pretend that you’re someone else.
Fake news writer: If people are stupid enough to believe this stuff…
…then maybe they deserve this drivel, says a Macedonian copy-paste/turn-it-into-clickbait-bile writer who says it’s all about the money.
Google Ads cracks down on tech support scammers
The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.
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?
Autoplaying video of journalists’ murders gives Facebook, Twitter users pause
Social media users unwillingly witnessed video of the murders of two television journalists yesterday, due to a default feature on Facebook and Twitter that plays videos automatically. Here’s how to turn “autoplay” off.
Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015
The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.
Our online advertising model fails have put us all in danger
Why hand over hard-earned cash for something when we can get the same thing for free? It seems like a no-brainer, but our unwillingness to pay for things directly has led the internet into a dark and dangerous corner where a dependence on advertising is putting our privacy and security on the line.