Startpage search engine serves
ads without tracking users via cookies. The private search engine has
become an option for the Vivaldi browser. The solution might be
extremely useful for those users concerned about the way big
companies use the data they collect using…
Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, when online shopping becomes the main solution for most of us. Facebook’s announcement is not hiding that this option comes “as many businesses are creating and strengthening their digital presence.” So, this might…
How do online ads change during the pandemic?
May 12, 2020
As the pandemic also brought a financial crisis for some companies, online ads became the main way for them to reach their costumers. Online companies try to take benefit of this situation and invest more in online advertising, while the offline ones need to adapt, in order…
In an article published by Scott Spencer,
Google promises to stop bad ads. Scott Spencer, Vice President of
Product Management, Ads Privacy and Safety said that this commitment
is especially important now.
A task force for COVID-19
During the COVID-19 outbreak…
How to install Ad Guardian Plus? A step-by-step guide
March 31, 2020
Working online might be dangerous, when we are not protected by the company’s defense system, but we will show you how to install Ad Guardian Plus. During this time, many of us work from home to prevent the spread of the pandemic. So, it might be annoying as most of…
Bot driven traffic emails threaten website owners
February 19, 2020
An extortion email campaign threatens to bombard websites using AdSense with bot driven traffic. Thus, it would trigger Google’s anti-fraud systems.
Brian Krebs, journalist and researcher, received the info from a website owner claiming he had received such a threat.
Chrome extensions stole data
February 14, 2020
Google announced it removed 500 malicious extensions. The Chrome extensions stole data of 1.7 million users. But the extensions were removed after they injected malicious ads used to send user browsing data to hacked servers.
The malvertising and ad-fraud
campaign using…