Google says no more shady anonymous web ads – if you want your billboard up, you've got to show us some valid ID
Um, it wasn't doing this already? That explains a lot
Personal Tech23 Apr 2020 | 29
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Twitter takes away twits' ability to limit ad data sharing – after telling investors its own privacy settings hurt revenue
Except you in Europe and UK, you still get to control over analytics fuel
Personal Tech09 Apr 2020 | 24
Decent, legal, honest and searchable: C'mon, Ofcom. Let us check up on the ad-slingers ourselves
Column It's a hard job... why not outsource it?
Legal21 Feb 2020 | 29
From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta
Hidden for now, probably coming to a desktop near you, soon, ish
Software22 Jan 2020 | 114
Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit
Payer cette petite amende, s'il vous plaît
Personal Tech20 Dec 2019 | 38
TAG, you're s*!t: Internet advertising industry bods admit self-policing approach is a sham
Special report Meanwhile: Trustworthy Accountability Group CEO dismisses ax-grinding critics
Personal Tech30 Sep 2019 | 27
Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe's GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts
Our ads? Stomping on people's privacy? Never! Not us! sobs search giant
Security04 Sep 2019 | 22
Developer reconsiders npm command-line ad caper after outcry
Effort to help fund open-source projects proves too much
Software30 Aug 2019 | 34
Maltese browser game biz flings €1m sueball at Google over Adsense kerfuffle
Claims to have made nearly €800k from ad clicks
On-Prem29 Aug 2019 | 33
How dodgy browser plugins, web scripts can silently rewrite that URL you were about to hit – and throw you into an internet wormhole
Analysis Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total
Security15 Aug 2019 | 37
Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit
Meanwhile, UK users still first line of defence against fake ads
Legal16 Jul 2019 | 20
UK competition bods to stick probe into worrying lack of said competition in online advertising
Facebook, Google have a reason to be worried
Legal05 Jul 2019 | 16
The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc. The seven UI 'dark patterns' that trick you into buying stuff
Present in more than 1 in 10 top websites (and yes, greed covers them all)
Personal Tech26 Jun 2019 | 137
Google takes the PIS out of advertising: New algo securely analyzes shared encrypted data sets without leaking contents
Plus: MongoDB crams end-to-end crypto into database tech
Security19 Jun 2019 | 11
Egg on North Face: Wikipedia furious after glamp-wear giant swaps article pics for sneaky ad shots – and even brags about it in a video
Updated 'We hacked the results to reach one of the most difficult places: The top of the world’s largest search engine'
Bootnotes29 May 2019 | 79
Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much
Freeloaders will be limited to less capable content filtering
Software29 May 2019 | 76
Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model
Safari tech ready to be ignored by online ad giants like all other privacy proposals
Software22 May 2019 | 38
UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23
Virgin complaint upheld
Networks17 Apr 2019 | 31
Facebook ad platform discriminates all on its own, say boffins
Bigots, racists and haters rejoice! You are going to get bias out of the box
Personal Tech04 Apr 2019 | 49
Carphone Warehouse thwacked by UK Advertising watchdog for a Cyber Monday wobble
Customers spared from buying an iPhone while credit scoring system had a lie-down
Legal20 Mar 2019 | 18
UK's ICO event on targeted ads opens floor to the adtech industry: Anybody? No? Speak for 10 minutes. Hello?
How to wind up your opponents 101: Refuse to engage
Security07 Mar 2019 | 14
BT 'UK's most powerful Wi-Fi'? Why, fie, for shame! – ads watchdog
Blood hath been shed 'ere now. Take that claim down anon, orders ASA
Networks27 Feb 2019 | 70
Chrome ad, content blockers beg Google: Don't execute our code! Wait, no, do execute our code – just don't kill us!
Worried devs list Manifest v3 problems they need tweaked
Software20 Feb 2019 | 32
Europe taps Facebook, Google, Twitter on the shoulder. So about those promises to stamp out lies, bots, dodgy ads?
Internet giants hand in their homework – here's a summary
Legal30 Jan 2019 | 22
Gripe to UK, Ireland, Poland: Ad tech industry inhales, then 'leaks' sensitive info on our health, politics, religion
Regulators asked to tackle 'systemic' GDPR breaches
Legal28 Jan 2019 | 24
Facebook's pay-for-more-eyeballs shtick looks too good to be true: Page views, Likes from 'fake' profiles
Analysis Small biz raises doubts over value of social network's ad tech
On-Prem14 Jan 2019 | 28
This July, Google will weep for there are no more worlds to banhammer: 'Bad ads' to be blocked globally
Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome
Software09 Jan 2019 | 22
Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz
Personal Tech05 Nov 2018 | 40
Euro eggheads call it: Facebook political ads do change voters' minds – and they worked rather well for Trump in 2016
'Brexit and the election of Donald might be largely due to the use of data analytics'
Legal24 Oct 2018 | 83
So Brave: Browser biz sics Brit watchdogs on Google's info slurpage
Software maker and allies demand regulatory strike on behavioral advertising
Personal Tech13 Sep 2018 | 12
Google skewered in ad sting after Oracle-backed bods turn troll
Search giant complains of misrepresentation, database titan raises an eyebrow
Legal05 Sep 2018 | 32
Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit
'Made-up PR numbers' used by social giant to exaggerate online advertising audience
On-Prem17 Aug 2018 | 62
Google's Alphabet hit by Europe's other GDPR: Global Domination = Profit Reduction
Net income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine
SaaS23 Jul 2018 | 23
Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers
Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks
Personal Tech12 Jun 2018 | 19
New Facebook political ad rules: Now you must prove your ID before undermining democracy
The horse is a speck on the horizon – but at least the barn door now has a bolt on it
Personal Tech24 May 2018 | 24
Mobile app devs have, oh, about 9 hours left to decide whether to stay on Google's ad platform
GDPR is their problem apparently
Legal24 May 2018 | 42
Top UK court to rule whether 4.5m Brit iPhone fanbois can sue Google over cookies
A tale of lawyer-funding venture capitalists and Mountain View
Personal Tech23 May 2018 | 12
Cisco cancels all YouTube ads, then conceals cancellation
Blog post shamed video vault, has since been ‘reposted as intended'
On-Prem11 May 2018 | 53
US Congress finally emits all 3,000 Russian 'troll' Facebook ads. Let's take a look at some
Pics Sub-literate, inept, and mostly highly divisive
Personal Tech10 May 2018 | 113
Google will vet political ads to ward off Phantom Menace of fake news
Mountain View's Empire Strikes Back against election meddling
Legal04 May 2018 | 36
The spies that knew too much about Facebook's advertising network
Analysis Despite transparency push, the social network still scorns ad data aggregators
Personal Tech03 May 2018 | 7
What could Facebook possibly do next to reassure privacy fears? Yup – make a dating app
F8 We have all been trolled
Personal Tech01 May 2018 | 58
Publishers tell Google: We're not your consent lackeys
GDP-argh! Trade groups say ad biz must clarify data use, take share of liability
Legal01 May 2018 | 34
Brit MPs brand Facebook a 'great vampire squid' out for cash
Zuck's CTO adds to PR apologies in Parliament
Legal27 Apr 2018 | 37
Google Pixel 2 XL: Like paying Apple-tier prices then saying, hey, please help yourself to my data
Special report Nice camera, and Android without OEM crapware, though
Personal Tech26 Apr 2018 | 142
Oracle snaffles 'don't seat us next to that smelly brand' Brit adtech firm Grapeshot
Acquisition for undisclosed sum latest in Big Red's foray into marketing
SaaS25 Apr 2018 | 5
Facebook can't admit the truth, says data-slurp boffin Kogan
Cambridge Analytica’s PR crisis man claims ‘morale is pretty good now’ in office
On-Prem24 Apr 2018 | 54
In not terrifying news at all, Google just keeps on growing: Revenue, profit, headcount up
Q1 tax rate plunge, cost of traffic to feed ad machine jumps
On-Prem24 Apr 2018 | 7
Translating Facebook's latest 'Hard Questions' PR spin – The Reg edit
Zuck: Creepy data-harvesting was for YOUR own good
Personal Tech23 Apr 2018 | 44
UK consumer help bloke Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over fake ads
Repeated misuse of consumer champion's mugshot leads to defamation sueball
Legal23 Apr 2018 | 98
Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good
Oh that snitch-code? It's just a little thing to make the web more convenient ... for Facebook and its advertisers
Security17 Apr 2018 | 191
Boffins find new ways to slurp private info from Facebook addicts using precision-targeted ads
Income, pregnancies, personal activities, all up for grabs
Personal Tech12 Apr 2018 | 36
Facebook dynamites its own APIs amid data slurp scandals, wrecks data slurp applications
And quietly cancels plan to gobble hospital patient info
Software06 Apr 2018 | 30
One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools
Call for software to throw badly behaved biz in fake data tar pits
Security03 Apr 2018 | 97
Adobe: New Unified Customer Profile will personalise ads as never before
Adobe Summit Cloudy marketing tools get AI powers... what do you mean, bad timing?
SaaS27 Mar 2018 | 38
More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox
Deteriorating web prompts browser maker to take a stand
Software24 Mar 2018 | 65
Crypto crackdown: Google bans ads for unregulated currencies
Bitcoin prices plummet
Legal14 Mar 2018 | 35
Google ad blocks itself with DoubleClick snafu
DoubleClick for Publishers has been exhibiting unexpected behavior for several hours
On-Prem13 Mar 2018 | 4
French competition watchdog aims probe at 'overwhelming' ad power of Google and Facebook
We'll take a very long lunch then decide what to do
On-Prem07 Mar 2018 | 11
Copper feel, fibre it ain't: Ads regulator could face court for playing hard and fast with definitions
CityFibre applies for review, says ASA is failing consumers
Systems05 Mar 2018 | 76
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