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How Chrome Ad Blocking Is Already Changing the Web…

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What was once unthinkable — that Chrome would block online ads, Google’s lifeblood — becomes reality on Thursday. That’s when Chrome takes a significant step in the direction that hundreds of millions of us already have gone by installing ad blockers. Chrome stops far short of those browser extensions, which typically ban all ads, but […]

Verizon’s Latest Rewards Program Shares Gobs of Your Data…

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Verizon has just fired up a new rewards program, but you might want to hold off if you’re concerned about your privacy. Brandon Robbins and other customers have noticed that enlisting in Up requires enrolling in a Verizon Selects personalized advertising program that tracks an extensive range of voluntary and automatic data: it’ll supply…

Google Is a Monopoly–And It’s Crushing the Internet…

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Five to 10 years ago, independent bloggers used to be able to get by on internet advertising, like the broadsheets of yore. But that changed quite quickly, and for two big reasons: Facebook and Google. They now gobble up the vast majority of internet advertising dollars — about 85 percent, as my colleague Jeff Spross […]

Intentionally Or Not, Big Brands Help Fund Fake News…

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Wittingly or not, major global corporations are helping fund sites that traffic in fake news by advertising on them. Take, for instance, a story that falsely claimed former President Barack Obama had banned Christmas cards to overseas military personnel. Despite debunking by The Associated Press and other fact-checking outlets, that article…

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