online advertising
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Meta Will Remove Ad Targeting Categories on Sexual Orientation, Religion, and Politics in 2022
It’s about to get a harder to target certain groups on Facebook. For society, that’s a good thing. For advertisers, not so much.
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Your Facebook News Feed Sucks Because That’s How Advertisers Like It
At a time when American’s trust in the news media is plummeting to record lows, one recent Pew poll reported that about a third of U.S. adults say they regularly get their news fix from Facebook’s feeds — even if their own trust in Facebook itself is plummeting to new lows for, oh, whatever reason.…
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Even the NSA Agrees: Targeted Ads Are Terrifying
Ad blockers. Maybe you love them, maybe you don’t think about them at all, but chances are, you know someone that’s using them. And it turns out a growing number of those people are in the federal ranks.
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How Your Ad Blocker Can Track You Across the Web
Ah, ad blockers. Even if you aren’t among the growing number of people downloading one of these extensions, chances are you’ve heard people sing their praises for all sorts of reasons. They make the web a less cluttered, less laggy, less invasive place to be. So naturally, the money-hungry tech upstarts have found a way…