by franwills | Jun 15, 2018 | advertising, identity, privacy
Our collective hope is to improve the relevance of ads you see, which should improve the user experience. ITEGA will be able to enforce rules that forbid targeting individual users who value their privacy higher than targetted advertising. They should have that...
by wpdensmore | Apr 20, 2017 | advertising, background, privacy
By Don Marti & Bill Densmore Ad fraud is enabled by cross-site surveillance: A fraudbot collects cookies (“cookie licking”) at a legit publisher’s site, then uses them to look like a human when visiting fraud sites. This is called “data leakage.” The costs of...
by wpdensmore | Jan 4, 2017 | advertising, privacy
By Don Marti Legitimate consumer privacy tools and high-reputation publishers, working together, can transform advertising on the web. Tools and sites can help users block low-value, cold-call-like targeted ads while permitting signal-carrying ads, the ones that...
by wpdensmore | May 25, 2016 | advertising, technology
What is “data leakage”? It’s when advertising technology companies, using tracking cookies placed on the computers of an unsuspecting user, assemble a profile of the user. Once they’ve done so, they can sell advertising to brands and...
by wpdensmore | Apr 24, 2016 | advertising, explanations
Are Audience Profile Books and the Information Trust Exchange marketplace like a railroad switchyard? In a railroad switch yard trains come in from all over the place and box cars of goods are switched around and made up to different trains and then go on their way....
