| Date / Time |
Story |
| Friday March 18, 2016 @10:13PM |
FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code |
| Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:36AM |
McAfee Uses Web Beacons That Can Be Used To Track Users, Serve Advertising |
| Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:51AM |
Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL |
| Sunday March 13, 2016 @03:12PM |
YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads |
| Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:24AM |
Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator |
| Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:24AM |
Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus |
| Wednesday March 02, 2016 @12:51PM |
UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy |
| Monday February 29, 2016 @12:27PM |
Adblock Plus Comes (Somewhat) Clean About How Acceptable Ads Work |
| Friday February 26, 2016 @12:56PM |
Porn-Clicker Android Malware Hits Google Play Hard |
| Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:18PM |
Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen |
| Monday February 22, 2016 @11:26AM |
Google Cleans Up Search Results By Ditching Sidebar Ads |
| Friday February 19, 2016 @09:18AM |
Mobile Giant Three Group To Block Online Advertising |
| Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:48AM |
Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers |
| Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:13PM |
Adblock Fast Returns To Google Play a Week After Being Pulled |
| Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:25AM |
Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription |
| Monday February 08, 2016 @04:27AM |
Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players |
| Thursday February 04, 2016 @07:38PM |
Samsung's AdBlock Fast Removed From the Play Store |
| Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:23PM |
Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' |
| Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:25AM |
German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming |
| Sunday January 24, 2016 @12:27AM |
DOJ and 4 States Want $24 Billion In Fines From Dish Network For Telemarketing |
| Friday January 22, 2016 @08:37PM |
Google Says It Killed 780 Million 'Bad Ads' In 2015 |
| Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:19AM |
Former Mozilla CEO Launches Security-Centric Browser Brave |
| Saturday January 09, 2016 @08:36PM |
Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising |
| Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:38AM |
Malvertising Campaign Used a Free Certificate From Let's Encrypt |
| Friday December 04, 2015 @08:11PM |
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles |
| Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:18AM |
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards |
| Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:17AM |
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode |
| Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:11AM |
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) |
| Friday November 13, 2015 @10:07PM |
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices |
| Monday October 26, 2015 @12:52PM |
NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds |
| Monday October 26, 2015 @11:01AM |
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution |
| Sunday October 18, 2015 @09:29PM |
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly |
| Sunday October 18, 2015 @03:25PM |
Deja Vu: Microsoft's 2015 Surface Book Ad and Apple's 2014 'Your Verse' iPad Ad |
| Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:35PM |
Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile |
| Thursday October 15, 2015 @10:22AM |
Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads |
| Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:36PM |
German Publisher Axel Springer Bans Adblocking Users From Bild Website |
| Monday October 05, 2015 @12:10AM |
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability |
| Sunday October 04, 2015 @10:31PM |
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data |
| Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:18PM |
Chrome AdBlock Joining Acceptable Ads Program (And Sold To Anonymous Company) |
| Friday October 02, 2015 @07:44PM |
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days |
| Thursday October 01, 2015 @11:30AM |
Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China |
| Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:44AM |
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads |
| Tuesday September 29, 2015 @12:28PM |
Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit |
| Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:19PM |
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory |
| Sunday September 20, 2015 @06:44PM |
AdBlock Plus Defends Ad Blocking, Applauds Marco Arment |
| Saturday September 19, 2015 @09:19AM |
AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers |
| Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:12PM |
One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store |
| Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:22AM |
Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads |
| Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:24PM |
Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router |
| Friday August 21, 2015 @10:31PM |
Amazon To Stop Accepting Flash Ads |
| Thursday August 20, 2015 @09:06AM |
New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements |
| Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:33AM |
Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof |
| Thursday July 23, 2015 @11:39AM |
Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads |
| Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:38PM |
Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures |
| Sunday June 28, 2015 @12:46PM |
Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More |
| Thursday June 18, 2015 @01:01PM |
Adblock Plus Can Now Be Rolled Out To Every Single Employee In a Company |
| Friday June 12, 2015 @07:54AM |
Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost |
| Friday June 05, 2015 @06:24PM |
Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content |
| Monday June 01, 2015 @06:38PM |
SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] |
| Saturday May 16, 2015 @07:38AM |
European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google |
| Sunday May 03, 2015 @07:22PM |
Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly |
| Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:38AM |
Consumer Groups Bemoan Google's "Deceptive" Ads for Kids In FTC Complaint |
| Thursday March 26, 2015 @10:22AM |
NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? |
| Friday March 13, 2015 @08:17PM |
FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use" |
| Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:23AM |
That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was |
| Friday February 27, 2015 @08:23PM |
Google Reverses Stance, Allows Porn On Blogger After Backlash |
| Saturday February 21, 2015 @06:17PM |
Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims |
| Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:48AM |
Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers |
| Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:34AM |
AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy |
| Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:17AM |
Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock |
| Friday January 16, 2015 @11:06PM |
Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads |
| Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:05PM |
Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies |
| Thursday January 01, 2015 @03:39PM |
Would Twitter Make President Obama 'Follow' the Tea Party If the Price Is Right? |
| Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:53AM |
Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service |
| Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:47AM |
AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads |
| Tuesday December 02, 2014 @11:28AM |
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? |
| Thursday November 20, 2014 @02:44PM |
Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases |
| Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:31PM |
AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:36AM |
Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising |
| Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:29PM |
Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features |
| Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:56PM |
EFF Hints At Lawsuit Against Verizon For Its Stealth Cookies |
| Thursday October 30, 2014 @02:17PM |
A Mixed Review For CBS's "All Access" Online Video Streaming |
| Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:12PM |
We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello |
| Thursday October 23, 2014 @11:00AM |
Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M |
| Monday October 20, 2014 @11:35AM |
Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites |
| Saturday October 18, 2014 @02:02PM |
Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy |
| Tuesday October 07, 2014 @11:13AM |
Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? |
| Thursday October 02, 2014 @11:58AM |
Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials |
| Friday September 19, 2014 @06:32PM |
Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware |
| Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:02AM |
European Commission Reopens Google Antitrust Investigation |
| Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:14AM |
Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page |
| Sunday August 24, 2014 @11:23AM |
Sources Say Amazon Will Soon Be Targeting Ads, a la Google AdWords |
| Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:24AM |
Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets |
| Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:09AM |
A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting |
| Thursday June 12, 2014 @02:37PM |
Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads |
| Monday June 09, 2014 @04:25PM |
After Trademark Dispute, Mexican Carriers Can No Longer Use iPhone Name In Ads |
| Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:15AM |
Nintendo To Split Ad Revenue With Streaming Gamers |
| Thursday May 01, 2014 @08:41AM |
Google Halts Gmail Scanning for Education Apps Users |
| Sunday April 20, 2014 @01:59PM |
Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads |
| Saturday April 05, 2014 @12:31PM |
Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future |
| Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:02AM |
Microsoft's Security Products Will Block Adware By Default Starting On July 1 |
| Friday March 14, 2014 @08:24PM |
Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results |
| Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:20PM |
The Facebook Ads Teens Aren't Supposed To See |
| Friday February 28, 2014 @10:36PM |
Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon |
| Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:23AM |
Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users |
| Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:57AM |
Dirty Tricks? Look-Alike Websites Lure Congressional Donors |
| Thursday January 02, 2014 @06:06PM |
ABC Kills Next-Day Streaming For Non-Subscribers |
| Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:47PM |
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes |
| Sunday December 15, 2013 @03:52PM |
Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data |
| Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:28AM |
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads |
| Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:36PM |
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors |
| Friday November 08, 2013 @07:41PM |
The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks |
| Thursday November 07, 2013 @07:28PM |
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads |
| Wednesday October 30, 2013 @01:06PM |
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users |
| Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:18AM |
Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results |
| Sunday October 13, 2013 @03:17AM |
Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads |
| Saturday October 12, 2013 @08:34AM |
NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself |
| Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:42PM |
No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway |
| Saturday October 05, 2013 @04:52PM |
Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising |
| Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:52AM |
Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks |
| Saturday September 21, 2013 @02:31PM |
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts |
| Friday September 20, 2013 @07:14PM |
Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs |
| Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:02AM |
Facebook To Overhaul Data Use Policy |
| Friday August 16, 2013 @11:54PM |
The Next Frontier of Consumer Exploitation By Corporations |
| Friday August 16, 2013 @07:14PM |
Obama, Romney Data Scientists Strike Out On Their Own |
| Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:07PM |
IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" |
| Sunday August 11, 2013 @01:49PM |
Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans |
| Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:15PM |
Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity |
| Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:30AM |
Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads |
| Sunday July 28, 2013 @03:51PM |
Consumer Rights Groups Take Issue With NTIA Code of Conduct For Mobile Apps |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:43PM |
Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You |
| Friday July 26, 2013 @07:55PM |
Zuckerberg: Ads On Instagram "When the Right Time Comes" |
| Friday July 26, 2013 @09:48AM |
Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests |
| Thursday July 04, 2013 @12:31PM |
State Dept. Bureau Spent $630k On Facebook 'Likes' |
| Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:50PM |
Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search |
| Tuesday June 25, 2013 @12:16PM |
Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook |
| Friday June 21, 2013 @08:01PM |
QANTAS Wants To Monitor Frequent Flyers' Home Internet |
| Friday June 21, 2013 @07:11PM |
Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers |
| Thursday June 20, 2013 @08:40AM |
Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative |
| Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:44AM |
Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe |
| Friday May 10, 2013 @08:41PM |
Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download |
| Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:24AM |
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? |
| Thursday May 02, 2013 @11:21AM |
Even the Ad Industry Doesn't Know Who's Tracking You |
| Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:21AM |
Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine |
| Thursday April 25, 2013 @08:37AM |
Startup Founder Plays Tech Press Like a Fiddle |
| Friday April 19, 2013 @07:51PM |
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads |
| Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:14AM |
Google Forbids Advertising On Glass |
| Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:00PM |
Samsung Accused of Paying For Negative HTC Reviews |
| Saturday April 13, 2013 @07:26AM |
UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases |
| Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:13PM |
Google Glass and Surveillance Culture |
| Tuesday March 26, 2013 @12:38PM |
European Carriers Complain To EU About Anti-Competitive Contracts With Apple |
| Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:30AM |
Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play |
| Sunday March 10, 2013 @02:16AM |
Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads |
| Friday March 08, 2013 @09:33PM |
Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools |
| Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:34AM |
Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style |
| Friday March 01, 2013 @07:25PM |
Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? |
| Saturday February 23, 2013 @05:26PM |
Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies |
| Friday February 22, 2013 @07:12PM |
CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification |
| Saturday February 16, 2013 @03:27PM |
Ask Slashdot: I Just Need... Marketing? |
| Saturday February 02, 2013 @02:41AM |
60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers |
| Sunday January 27, 2013 @06:51PM |
Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' |
| Tuesday December 18, 2012 @01:18PM |
Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice |
| Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:46PM |
How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit |
| Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:33AM |
Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today |
| Friday December 07, 2012 @07:29PM |
Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers |
| Friday December 07, 2012 @09:21AM |
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next |
| Thursday December 06, 2012 @09:32AM |
FTC Bars Ad Firm From Snooping Browser History |
| Friday November 23, 2012 @05:27PM |
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? |
| Friday November 16, 2012 @04:08AM |
AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware |
| Thursday November 15, 2012 @09:31AM |
Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine |
| Friday November 09, 2012 @08:52AM |
Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads |
| Thursday November 08, 2012 @03:01PM |
Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site |
| Saturday November 03, 2012 @07:42PM |
Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling |
| Thursday November 01, 2012 @09:42AM |
UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement |
| Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:45PM |
What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like |
| Thursday October 18, 2012 @08:52AM |
In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung |
| Tuesday October 09, 2012 @10:07AM |
Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? |
| Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:08AM |
Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings |
| Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:49AM |
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed |
| Sunday September 23, 2012 @09:34AM |
Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT |
| Saturday September 22, 2012 @09:19AM |
Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:28AM |
Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:24AM |
Nokia Faked Lumia 920 Ad, Issues Apology |
| Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:19AM |
Inside the Business of Online Reviews For Hire |
| Thursday August 23, 2012 @01:45PM |
Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years |
| Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:47AM |
Judge Rejects Settlement In Facebook Sponsored Stories Case |
| Friday August 17, 2012 @08:35PM |
The Olympic Live Stream: Observations, Recommendations, Predictions |
| Thursday August 16, 2012 @05:12PM |
BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional |
| Sunday August 12, 2012 @01:07AM |
uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) |
| Tuesday August 07, 2012 @11:50AM |
The Underground Economy of Social Networks |
| Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:53AM |
The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business |
| Friday July 20, 2012 @08:06PM |
Australian Sex Party May Sue Google Over Ad Refusal |
| Friday July 13, 2012 @08:47PM |
Facebook "Like" System Devalued By Fake Users |
| Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:23PM |
Facebook Settles 'Sponsored Stories' Suit For $10M To Charity |
| Monday June 11, 2012 @04:32AM |
Kinect: You Are the Controlled |
| Friday June 08, 2012 @06:37PM |
In Australia, Apple Fined $2.5 Million For '4G' Advertising Claims |
| Friday May 25, 2012 @06:36PM |
Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? |
| Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:37PM |
Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature |
| Wednesday May 23, 2012 @09:21AM |
The Price of Military Tech Assistance In Movies |
| Friday April 27, 2012 @06:44AM |
Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS |
