The Blurred Lines and Closed Loops of Google Search
Seemingly small design tweaks to the search results interface may change how and where people find information online.
January 13 was a fairly eventful day, at least for pre-pandemic times. Cory Booker dropped out of the presidential race. LSU trounced Clemson in the college football national championship game. Attorney general William Barr asked Apple to unlock an iPhone. And Google pushed out a seemingly tiny tweak to how it displays search ads for desktop computers.
Previously, the search engine had marked paid results with the word “Ad” in a green box, tucked beneath the headline next to a matching green display URL. Now, all of a sudden, the “Ad” and the URL shifted above the headline, and both were rendered in discreet black; the box disappeared.
https://www.wired.com/story/blurred-lines-closed-loops-google-search/
#Google #search #ads
Seemingly small design tweaks to the search results interface may change how and where people find information online.
January 13 was a fairly eventful day, at least for pre-pandemic times. Cory Booker dropped out of the presidential race. LSU trounced Clemson in the college football national championship game. Attorney general William Barr asked Apple to unlock an iPhone. And Google pushed out a seemingly tiny tweak to how it displays search ads for desktop computers.
Previously, the search engine had marked paid results with the word “Ad” in a green box, tucked beneath the headline next to a matching green display URL. Now, all of a sudden, the “Ad” and the URL shifted above the headline, and both were rendered in discreet black; the box disappeared.
https://www.wired.com/story/blurred-lines-closed-loops-google-search/
#Google #search #ads
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
In the beginning, Samsung TV owners were seeing ads for new streaming content, apps or Samsung products. Owners are now complaining about larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads.
Ads in your TV interface
Sometime in 2016 Samsung began pushing a software update to enable ads in the user interface of previously acquired Smart TVs as well as new TVs. The ads were shown above a new icon in the bottom menu.
The move upset some owners of Samsung TVs while others accepted it. Back then, the ads related mostly to new services (such as GameFly), new content from close partners (such as Google Play or Amazon Video), new movies in theaters (such as Angry Birds 2), Samsung's own services (such as TV Plus) or its own products (such as Galaxy smartphones).
Towards the end of 2019, owners have started to voice their dissatisfaction with larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads showing up on their Samsung TVs. These include ads for canned beans or discount supermarkets such as the one embedded below or the one shared on Samsung's community boards.
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244
#Samsung #ads
In the beginning, Samsung TV owners were seeing ads for new streaming content, apps or Samsung products. Owners are now complaining about larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads.
Ads in your TV interface
Sometime in 2016 Samsung began pushing a software update to enable ads in the user interface of previously acquired Smart TVs as well as new TVs. The ads were shown above a new icon in the bottom menu.
The move upset some owners of Samsung TVs while others accepted it. Back then, the ads related mostly to new services (such as GameFly), new content from close partners (such as Google Play or Amazon Video), new movies in theaters (such as Angry Birds 2), Samsung's own services (such as TV Plus) or its own products (such as Galaxy smartphones).
Towards the end of 2019, owners have started to voice their dissatisfaction with larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads showing up on their Samsung TVs. These include ads for canned beans or discount supermarkets such as the one embedded below or the one shared on Samsung's community boards.
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244
#Samsung #ads
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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
The ads appeared sometime in 2016 but it is now escalating
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Is Instagram Spying on Me? When Ad-targeting Gets Too Personal
Advertisers bank on personalising ads, but this was too much.
A few days ago, my girlfriend and I saw an Instagram ad that felt eerily familiar. The image was a bedroom featuring a white designer cabinet, a bed with yellow and white-striped sheets and soft furnishings in shades of beige and light brown. Just like our bedroom.
We were paralysed for a few minutes. I had never come across ad content that hit so close to home before. Was it possible that Instagram was somehow spying on our room?
The ad for Bonsoirs’ “Club Holiday” Campaign. Bonsoirs is a French linen company.
There has been plenty of speculation in recent years about whether apps can listen to us or watch us. But there are lots of sensible reasons why an ad for something you’ve recently talked about might pop up on your phone. It’s possible you’d already seen it and never noticed, or maybe it’s related to something that you or the people you share your wifi with have searched for online.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/935p7d/instagram-ad-bedroom
#Facebook #Instagram #ads #privacy
Advertisers bank on personalising ads, but this was too much.
A few days ago, my girlfriend and I saw an Instagram ad that felt eerily familiar. The image was a bedroom featuring a white designer cabinet, a bed with yellow and white-striped sheets and soft furnishings in shades of beige and light brown. Just like our bedroom.
We were paralysed for a few minutes. I had never come across ad content that hit so close to home before. Was it possible that Instagram was somehow spying on our room?
The ad for Bonsoirs’ “Club Holiday” Campaign. Bonsoirs is a French linen company.
There has been plenty of speculation in recent years about whether apps can listen to us or watch us. But there are lots of sensible reasons why an ad for something you’ve recently talked about might pop up on your phone. It’s possible you’d already seen it and never noticed, or maybe it’s related to something that you or the people you share your wifi with have searched for online.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/935p7d/instagram-ad-bedroom
#Facebook #Instagram #ads #privacy
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Is Instagram Spying on Me? When Ad-targeting Gets Too Personal
Advertisers bank on personalising ads, but this was too much.
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#disablebadservices #disable #blocker #watt #mat #block #ifw #intents #services #ads #tracking
perl disable-trackers-from-recovery.pl --exodus-trackers-pathname <pathname> where <pathname> refers to pathname of the local exodus file that you've downloaded from https://etip.exodus-privacy.eu.org/trackers/export
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How to watch YouTube without using YouTube App/Website.
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How product placements may soon be added to classic films
Product placement is big business for movies and TV series alike, and items can now be added digitally to films and programmes both new and old.
Fans of classic war flicks will know the scene - actor Steve McQueen revs his motorcycle furiously as he is chased by German soldiers.
Hoping to use the bike to jump over a barbed wire border fence, and reach safety in Switzerland, he pauses to gather his thoughts by a barn.
On the side of the building is a big poster advertising a best-selling beer.
You don't remember the billboard advert? Well it might not have been there the last time you watched The Great Escape, but it could well be the next.
Product placement in films is almost as old as the movie industry itself. The first example of the phenomenon is said to be the 1919 Buster Keaton comedy The Garage, which featured the logos of petrol firms and motor oil companies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56758376
#CGI #ads #movie
Product placement is big business for movies and TV series alike, and items can now be added digitally to films and programmes both new and old.
Fans of classic war flicks will know the scene - actor Steve McQueen revs his motorcycle furiously as he is chased by German soldiers.
Hoping to use the bike to jump over a barbed wire border fence, and reach safety in Switzerland, he pauses to gather his thoughts by a barn.
On the side of the building is a big poster advertising a best-selling beer.
You don't remember the billboard advert? Well it might not have been there the last time you watched The Great Escape, but it could well be the next.
Product placement in films is almost as old as the movie industry itself. The first example of the phenomenon is said to be the 1919 Buster Keaton comedy The Garage, which featured the logos of petrol firms and motor oil companies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56758376
#CGI #ads #movie
Apple’s Privacy Changes Are Poised to Boost Its Ad Products
Under iPhone maker’s new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
Under Apple new privacy restrictions, advertisers targeting iPhone users will get more data about ad performance if they buy Apple’s ad space than if they buy through third parties, according to ad-industry executives.
The difference could eventually give Apple’s small but growing ad business an edge over rivals, ad executives and app makers say.
Apple’s latest operating system for iPhones has set off a firestorm in the ad industry and beyond by letting users decide whether to let apps track them for advertising purposes—changes that mean companies may soon have less data about who sees their ads. Apps on Apple’s iOS platform must ask users’ permission to track them for advertising purposes.
When targeting users who have opted out of tracking, advertisers who buy ads through third-party platforms will have to wait three days for insights on their campaigns and will receive only aggregate information, such as the total number of users who took an action after an ad, people familiar with Apple’s ad products said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-privacy-changes-are-poised-to-boost-its-ad-products-11619485863
#Apple #ads #privacy
Under iPhone maker’s new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
Under Apple new privacy restrictions, advertisers targeting iPhone users will get more data about ad performance if they buy Apple’s ad space than if they buy through third parties, according to ad-industry executives.
The difference could eventually give Apple’s small but growing ad business an edge over rivals, ad executives and app makers say.
Apple’s latest operating system for iPhones has set off a firestorm in the ad industry and beyond by letting users decide whether to let apps track them for advertising purposes—changes that mean companies may soon have less data about who sees their ads. Apps on Apple’s iOS platform must ask users’ permission to track them for advertising purposes.
When targeting users who have opted out of tracking, advertisers who buy ads through third-party platforms will have to wait three days for insights on their campaigns and will receive only aggregate information, such as the total number of users who took an action after an ad, people familiar with Apple’s ad products said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-privacy-changes-are-poised-to-boost-its-ad-products-11619485863
#Apple #ads #privacy
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Apple’s Privacy Changes Are Poised to Boost Its Ad Products
Under the new privacy restrictions, advertisers targeting iPhone users will get more data about ad performance if they buy Apple’s ad space than if they buy through third parties, according to ad-industry executives.
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The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.
This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past. The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
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Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.
This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past. The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv
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Facebook shut down Signal’s ads because they exposed too much
Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing network – and its social media behemoth owner – has on individuals as they browse their timeline. Signal had intended to use Instagram’s own third-party advert tools to reveal some of the precise targeting that advertisers can buy access to.
There’s a general acknowledgement these days that advertisers can filter who, exactly, sees their commercials. That makes good business sense, after all: there’s no point in showing ads to people who are unlikely to be interested in your product.
However it’s likely that few mainstream consumers are aware of quite how much targeted information ad network providers like Facebook hold on them. Collated across multiple interactions online – with websites, apps, services, and more – they help build unexpectedly precise profiles about each user. Those profiles can then in turn be sold as visibility filters to more advertisers, so that they can further narrow down their campaigns to whoever they believe will be the most receptive audience.
https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-shut-down-signals-ads-because-they-exposed-too-much-04671574/
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#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
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Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing network – and its social media behemoth owner – has on individuals as they browse their timeline. Signal had intended to use Instagram’s own third-party advert tools to reveal some of the precise targeting that advertisers can buy access to.
There’s a general acknowledgement these days that advertisers can filter who, exactly, sees their commercials. That makes good business sense, after all: there’s no point in showing ads to people who are unlikely to be interested in your product.
However it’s likely that few mainstream consumers are aware of quite how much targeted information ad network providers like Facebook hold on them. Collated across multiple interactions online – with websites, apps, services, and more – they help build unexpectedly precise profiles about each user. Those profiles can then in turn be sold as visibility filters to more advertisers, so that they can further narrow down their campaigns to whoever they believe will be the most receptive audience.
https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-shut-down-signals-ads-because-they-exposed-too-much-04671574/
💡 read as well:
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2138
#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv
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Facebook Shut Down Signal's Ads Because They Exposed Too Much
Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing…
#Twitter is putting #ads where you can see them -- in the middle of conversations.
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-is-putting-ads-where-you-can-see-them-in-the-middle-of-conversations-71634203836111.html
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-is-putting-ads-where-you-can-see-them-in-the-middle-of-conversations-71634203836111.html
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Twitter is putting ads where you can see them -- in the middle of conversations
These ads have started appearing in the company’s Android and iOS-based app in the middle of the conversations for a select bunch of users.
An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the Camera and Microphone
The last thing we want is for an advertising network to access the Camera or Microphone on our computer. But, while looking for something else, I stumbled upon messages in the Safari JavaScript console saying that an iframe loaded from safeframe.googlesyndication.com tried to do exactly that.
https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html
#google #ads
The last thing we want is for an advertising network to access the Camera or Microphone on our computer. But, while looking for something else, I stumbled upon messages in the Safari JavaScript console saying that an iframe loaded from safeframe.googlesyndication.com tried to do exactly that.
https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html
#google #ads
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An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the Camera and Microphone
How to block #ads on #Android, with root and without root
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How to block ads on Android, with root and without root
Ads can be annoying in a lot of cases. If you're grown frustrated by ads on the Internet, here's how you can block ads on Android.
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