- Technology & Gadgets
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 8th, 2018
Facebook Trying to Convince Portal Is Not Used for Ad Targeting. Spoiler: It Is!
People's distrust in Facebook will be hard to overcome
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 23rd, 2018
Facebook Unveils Ad Archive Transparency Tool for Political Related Ads
The Ad Archive report is updated on a weekly basis
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Facebook Allegedly Hid Inflated Video Ad Metrics of Up to 900 Percent
Video ad metrics issue was known one year before disclosure
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Facebook Won't Display Ads on Its Portal Devices, Will Use Data for Ad Targeting
Backpedals on Portal and Portal+ focus on privacy
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 27th, 2018
Facebook Uses Your 2FA Phone Number for Ad Targeting
Facebook exchanges your privacy for ad revenue
- Google News
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 25th, 2018
Cryptocurrency Ban Removed by Google
Announced in Financial products and services policy update
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 2nd, 2017
YouTube Cuts Ad Money from Hateful and Offensive Videos
YouTube is trying to make peace with advertisers
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 11th, 2017
Facebook Alters News Feed to Downrank Spammy Websites
Facebook wants to save you from ad-suffocated websites
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 4th, 2017
Hundreds of Apps Use Ultrasonic Sounds to Track You, Threaten Your Privacy
The data can be used to create a profile on your habits
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 7th, 2017
YouTube to Stop Placing Ads on Channels with Under 10,000 Views
A channel needs to have 10,000 views in total, on all videos
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 3rd, 2017
Google to Use Machine Learning to Avoid Ad-Placing on Extremist Content
This seems to be Google's only idea to fix the problem
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 23rd, 2017
Facebook to Insert Annoying Ads Midway Through Videos
The ads are certainly going to become a major reason for upset among the social network's many users
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 5th, 2016
KeePass Won't Fix a Security Flaw Because It Will Lose Advertising Revenue
Flaw allows for MitM attacks during KeePass' update process
- Social Networking Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 28th, 2016
Facebook Will Now Track Non-Members and Show Them Ads
Company will use social buttons to collect user data
- Other Search Engines
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 14th, 2016
Microsoft Bans Tech Support Ads in Bing, Google Outlaws Payday Loan Ads
Companies put the foot down when it comes to shady ads
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 3rd, 2016
Ad Code for Many Advertising Networks Vulnerable to Basic XSS Attacks
XSS payload jumps across pages via ad code
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 2nd, 2016
Compromised WordPress Sites Hijacked Over and Over Again to Push Malware
Attacker is using an unknown backdoor to reinfect websites