adtech
Malicious AdTech Spies on People as NatSec Targets
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, bidding, foreign adtech, google, Google advertising, national security, Nuviad, Patternz, Rafi Ton, SB Blogwatch, security service
Targeted ads target targets: Patternz and Nuviad enable potentially hostile governments to track individuals by misusing ad bidding ...
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Facebook’s New Privacy Nightmare: ‘Link History’
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, customer privacy, Data Privacy, DeleteFacebook, facebook, Facebook data, key loggers, key logging, Keylog, keylogger, keyloggers, keylogging, Link History, Meta, Meta Networks, Meta Pixel, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting ...
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Happy New Year: Google Cookie Block Starts Soon, but Fear Remains
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, Google Chrome, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
2024 almost here: Rollout begins Jan 4, but few trust Google’s motives ...
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Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?
Richi Jennings | | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Manifest V3, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin
Manifest V3: Destiny. Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers ...
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VICTORY: Google WEI ‘Stealth DRM’ Plan is Dead (or is it?)
Richi Jennings | | adtech, attestation, Chrome, digital rights management, DRM, environment attestation, freedom to tinker, google, IntegrityToken, SB Blogwatch, Web Environment Integrity, WebView Media Integrity API, WEI, wmi
WEI is dead — long live WMI: Google backs down on Web Environment Integrity API, but its replacement is also problematic ...
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Don’t Be Evil: Google’s Scary ‘IP Protection’ Privacy Plan
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, anonymization proxy, Anti-Fingerprinting, Browser Fingerprinting, Chrome, Cloud Proxy, Data Privacy, device fingerprinting, EU GDPR, fingerprinting, GDPR, GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, gdpr legislation, GeoIP, Gnatcatcher, google, Google Chrome, IP address, IP address tracker, IP Protection, Privacy, proxy, proxy server, proxy servers, proxy service, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, tracking, zero trust
Firefox here we come! “Free” privacy proxy for all Chrome users? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? ...
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Google Kills 3rd-Party Cookies — but Monopolizes AdTech
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, FLEDGE, FLoC, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Firefox looking good right now: “Privacy Sandbox” criticized as a proprietary, hypocritical, anti-competitive, self-serving contradiction ...
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ALERT: Google Wants to DRM your OS for ‘Web Environment Integrity’
Richi Jennings | | adtech, attestation, Chrome, digital rights management, DRM, environment attestation, freedom to tinker, google, IntegrityToken, SB Blogwatch, Web Environment Integrity, WEI
We will kill WEI: A thinly veiled attempt to track you and make more ad money ...
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Oracle’s HUGE Ad Data Graph is ‘Illegal Panopticon’ — 5 BILLION People Big
Richi Jennings | | ad tracking, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, California, California Constitution, California Invasion of Privacy Act, facebook, federal law, Federal Wiretap Act, ID Graph, In contravention to the California Constitution and the reasonable expectations of privacy of California residents, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, Unfair Competition Law
Oracle “illegally” collects and links data about you, selling it to the highest bidder—all without your consent ...
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Two-Faced Facebook: Foils Privacy Plugins by Encrypting URLs
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertiising, DeleteFacebook, facebook, It's easy: just stop clicking FB links, Meta, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Facebook is rolling out a new link schema—to fight privacy browsers and privacy plugins ...
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