July 01, 2020

Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote

No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process.

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February 04, 2020

Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.

Google's Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man's voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.

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January 16, 2020

Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

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December 03, 2019

Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough

"forbesbusinessinsider.com?" Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.

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May 24, 2019

Safari test points to a future with tracker-free ads

Apple thinks it has come up with a way for advertisers to track how well their ads are doing without compromising user privacy.

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September 12, 2018

Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet

Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.

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September 21, 2017

How BitPaymer ransomware covers its tracks

This BitPaymer malware variant uses tricks that you don't usually see in ransomware - but it still scrambles your files in the end.

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August 25, 2016

Google to rate down sites with aggravating pop-up ads

Google's planning to penalize mobile sites that block content by placing those sites lower in site rankings.

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August 24, 2016

98 things Facebook knows about you

If you're going to get ads anyway...why not targeted ones? How much pigeonholing is too much?

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