Category: Online Ads

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Google fined $1.49BN in Europe for antitrust violations in search ad brokering

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

The European Commission has just announced another antitrust fine for Google . The latest fine — $1.49BN — relates to its search ad brokering business which competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager noted today is “by far” the company’s main source of revenue. “Today’s decision is about how Google abused its domiance to stop website’s using brokers […]

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How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

A ruling in late October against a little known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month, is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe who believe it signals the beginning of the end for creepy online ads. The excitement is palpable. Impressively so, […]

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Audit Facebook and overhaul competition law, say MEPs responding to breach scandals

sudshr47 October 11, 2018

After holding a series of hearings in the wake of the Facebook -Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal this summer, and attending a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg himself in May, the European Union parliament’s civil liberties committee has called for an update to competition rules to reflect what it dubs “the digital reality”, urging EU institutions […]

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There’s an access code for Visible in its online ad

sudshr47 May 11, 2018

Sometimes it pays to click on the ads. Verizon’s poorly kept startup secret, Visible, the new app-based phone service that provides all-in voice, data and text for $40 does have an access code for the hoi polloi. It’s in the online ads for the company’s service and it’s: 0abfa You’re welcome.  

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Can data science save social media?

sudshr47 April 18, 2018

The unfettered internet is too often used for malicious purposes and is frequently woefully inaccurate. Social media — especially Facebook — has failed miserably at protecting user privacy and blocking miscreants from sowing discord.

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