online advertising
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Why Every Company Is an Ad Company Now
This week, Marriott turned some heads when it announced it was partnering up with Yahoo in an attempt to launch a new media venture.
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Broke: Breaking up Big Tech. Woke: Breaking up Big Ads.
This week, Bloomberg reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers are inching closer to another big plan to break up big tech. But unlike grandiloquent calls for Meta to divest Instagram or for Google to divest Chrome, this new legislation would force both companies to divest the heart of their money-making machinery: their ads business.
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How to Watch Ad-Free YouTube Videos on Android, Even Without Vanced
YouTube Vanced was a popular modded version of the YouTube app that gave us access to features the free version of the YouTube app wouldn’t (not to mention a few fun extras, like themes and swipe controls). Mainly though, it was popular because it had an ad-blocker, offline downloads, picture-in-picture, and background playback. — things…
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This Ad-Free Google Search Alternative Is Actually Worth Using
When a company like Google controls more than 90% of the search engine market, it’s always seemed near-impossible for any competitor to woo away the company’s users. More recently though, that tide’s started to change — Google’s constant flubs in protecting users’ privacy have left folks looking for alternatives that won’t abuse their search engine…