advertising
Latest about advertising

Google's plan to make advertising less invasive hits another roadblock
By Anthony Spadafora published
A recently discovered one-bit leak issue in Google's FLEDGE could be exploited to track users across different websites.

Google follows Apple, looks to stop Android apps tracking users
By Mayank Sharma published
Proposed changes will prevent marketers from misusing the Advertising ID of Android devices.

GitHub is blocking FLoC
By Anthony Spadafora published
GitHub's new HTTP headers prevents site visitors from being added to one of Google's cohorts.

Disney and advertising giants pledge to strip targeted ads from children's apps
By Sead Fadilpašić published
Disney and other companies have been accused of profiling children via mobile apps.

Google is trialling its first alternative to tracking cookies
By Joel Khalili published
Google FLoC is an alternative (and slightly less invasive) way of tracking people’s interests.

This cloud storage giant was accidentally sharing a bunch of data with Facebook
By Anthony Spadafora published
Backblaze accidentally shared user metadata with Facebook during one of the social network's recent marketing campaigns.

Why we need to rebuild internet search, putting user privacy first
By Kurt Nielsen published
To use the internet is to consume advertising, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Google wants to limit how much your Android phone knows about you
By Barclay Ballard published
Google is reportedly working on its own anti-tracking feature to protect the privacy of Android users.
Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.

