advertising
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6 Ways Uncanny AT&T Ads Predicted the Future in 1993
In 1993, telecom giant AT&T launched an advertising campaign that somehow predicted quite a lot of aspects of how we work and live today. The “You Will” ad series, directed by now-famed thrill-master David Fincher, was an eerily accurate look at what life in the mid to late 2000s would look like. The ads, narrated…
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Google Search Ads Keep Promoting Stalkerware, Despite an Explicit Ban
If you’re concerned that somebody might be trying to track you through your phone, then just be aware they might be getting help from Google’s ad policies.
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Google Needs to Unlock Its Ad Privacy Black Box
Google’s FloC was killed because it was a bad idea for privacy on the web. But we didn’t know exactly how bad until two MIT researchers tested it — over months, using technical approaches and an expensive, private dataset. That it was this difficult to add some transparency is unacceptable for a fundamental change to…
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LG’s Latest Announcement Solidifies Everything Wrong With TVs
It’s a well established fact on the internet that when you don’t pay for something, you are the product. This is the way companies like Facebook operate: You, a user, don’t put down cash every time you log in to see what your friends/family/exes are doing; instead, you hand over your personal data to the…