Bitdefender revealed more than a dozen Google Play apps bombard users with annoying ads. According to the company, 17 apps used different strategies to deliver irritating ads. Still, they appear to be legitimate apps.
Among the ads, which have more than half a million…
Its digital advertising practices continue to bring troubles for Google. Two separate cases will go to court in the UK and in the Netherlands. These are on behalf of publishers, who seek “compensation” from the company. They accuse Google of anti-competitive…
Industry giants take the issue of advertising discrimination seriously, in order to combat bias in digital marketing. WPP, Delta Airlines, Kellogg and Mindshare joined their forces for this.
Algorithms for advertising discrimination
In order to decided which…
As its “customers don’t like ads,” Evite, an American online party planner, decided to just close its advertising business. This happens while other players on the market just get into it.
Customers don’t like ads as they hurt their experience…
Users should get more control over personal data, as Google started rolling out its new data safety section on the Play Store. This requires developers to inform users about the collection of data, the access to it and mention the collected data.
Control over personal…
In what seems to be a sudden move, YouTube comes back to its ad monetization strategy. The platform announced it will stream free, ad-supported TV shows. Thus, it will compete directly with a growing number of free streaming services.
Back to ad monetization…
The technology that allows Facebook facial recognition violated state privacy protection. This is what Texas attorney general’s office said and sued Meta’s Facebook.
According
to the office, the giant’s technology violated state privacy
protections.
YouTube shopping should be available this year, according to Neal Mohan, chief product officer (CPO). He also revealed a few of the platform’s other plans for this year.
What would YouTube Shopping be?
Although we might think that
YouTube is going to sell…
Twitter filed a suit in Germany, against the online reporting rule. The rule would force social media companies to delete or block criminal content immediately. Also, they should report serious criminal offences to the police.
What might be wrong with online reporting…
Three congresspersons want to stop targeted advertising. This might stop Google, Facebook and other tech giants using personal data to target their users with ads.
Stop tracking for targeted advertising
The act might just stop huge players from using users’…
