Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a zany twist at the end, because “This year more than ever, we felt that it was important to give people a little lift, to remind them that while we are facing a lot of challenges, there are many ways we can connect, be productive and enjoy the… Continue reading Is Microsoft’s ‘Find Your Joy’ Holiday Ad Sad?
“This week’s Freakonomics podcast goes into depth at asking if digital advertising actually works,” writes Slashdot reader Thelasko:
Economist Steve Tadelis [a professor at U.C. Berkeley’s business school] was interested in answering that question whil… Continue reading Does Digital Advertising Actually Work?
Fake Minecraft Modpacks on Google Play deliver millions of abusive ads and make normal phone use impossible. Continue reading ‘Minecraft Mods’ Attack More Than 1 Million Android Devices
Apple affirmed Thursday that its mobile operating system will soon get a new privacy feature opposed by the advertising industry, and it specifically called out Facebook for showing a “disregard for user privacy.” The privacy technology — App Tracking Transparency (ATT) — will arrive in early 2021, according to a letter that Jane Horvath, Apple’s senior director for global privacy, sent to Ranking Digital Rights, an organization that has agitated for big tech companies to do more to improve security and privacy. The nonprofit had urged Apple in October to push forward with the feature. ATT essentially will block iOS apps from tracking the use of other apps on a device. The goal is to limit the information that advertising networks collect about Apple device users. “We delayed the release of ATT to early next year to give developers the time they indicated they needed to properly update their systems and […]
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YouTube has updated its Terms of Service to include a new section that gives it the right to monetize videos from channels not big enough to be part of its Partner Program. Engadget reports: That doesn’t mean new creators can start earning from their v… Continue reading YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators’ Videos Without Paying Them
According to Windows Latest, “Microsoft is A/B testing a new feature that is designed to nag users with fullscreen window-less Microsoft Edge recommendations in the OOBE screen.” From the report: The nag will appear when users set up their PC, sign in … Continue reading Microsoft Is Showing Windows 10 Users Full-Screen Ads For Its Edge Browser
The Darkside ransomware gang thinks it’s a modern-day Robin Hood when it donates extorted Bitcoins to charity, the micro-targeted ad industry could pop like a bubble, and would you trust a burger-flipping robot?
All this and much more is discussed i… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #201: Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubble
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Adblocking extensions with more than 300,000 active users have been surreptitiously uploading user browsing data and tampering with users’ social media accounts thanks to malware its new owner intr… Continue reading Adblockers Installed 300,000 Times Are Malicious and Should Be Removed Now
Facebook will ban anti-vaccine ads in an effort to combat misinformation and support public health experts, the social media platform announced in a statement on Tuesday. Axios reports: The company now says it doesn’t want these ads on its platform, bu… Continue reading Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine Ads, But Not Organic Misinformation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Two misleading ads for mobile games that bear little relation to the actual product have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The ads, for the Homescapes and Gardenscapes games, bot… Continue reading UK Ad Authority Bans Misleading Homescapes and Gardenscapes Ads