The dismantling of digital advertising based on personal data and cookies is reshaping revenue plans for ad and tech industries, publishers, and small companies
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Analysis: Amazon's properties, including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com, and Zappos.com, are blocking Google's new FLoC tracking system from gathering data
Amazon is blocking Google's controversial cookieless tracking and targeting method. — Most of Amazon's properties including Amazon.com … Tweets: @juokaz and @glenngabe Tweets: @juokaz : Amazon is bl...
Facebook and Instagram now give users options to hide Like counts across all posts and to hide their own public Like counts from others
for your own posts and others Clare Duffy / CNN : Facebook and Instagram willl now let all users hide likes on posts Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Instagram ‘Drops’ a new place to shop as social commerce t...
Adobe ends support for Flash and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from Jan. 1
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 1, 2021 Jenn Gidman / Newser : Adobe Flash Is Officially No More Kevin Col...
Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate
but there's a fix Rob Thubron / TechSpot : A third of Android devices will lose support for many secure websites next year Alan Martin / Tom's Guide : Your Android phone could have a big problem soon ...
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers
zero attribution for users who do not *opt in*. Prices are going to go way up for bad traffic. It risks killing the app install/UA market as it exists today in terms of scale and effectiveness. @priva...
EU's top court rules that sites with embedded Facebook Like buttons are responsible for data collected, must obtain user consent before data is sent to Facebook
suggesting the CJEU ruling will apply to other social platforms"yep https://techcrunch.com/... Sally Hubbard / @sally_hubbard : I hope the EU court ruling is the beginning of the end of this fraudulen...