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Our investigation into the Adtech company, LiveRamp, showed that they use the contact details you enter into a site as proxy trackers to identify what you do online.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol #liveramp

Open Rights Group

ORG submits complaints about intrusive LiveRamp adtech system

Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) about LiveRamp, an online advertising and data broking company.

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 days ago

What about cookie consent banners?

Under UK law, you need to consent to companies tracking you. But the data regulator has been too lenient in how this is done.

That means we get hit with confusing or manipulative cookie banners.

So most people end up being tracked whether they want to be or not.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied · 2 days ago

The Adtech industry has learned to dodge protections against cookie tracking.

Our investigation into the Adtech company, LiveRamp, showed that they use the contact details you enter into a site as proxy trackers to identify what you do online.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol #liveramp

Open Rights Group

ORG submits complaints about intrusive LiveRamp adtech system

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 days ago

How does a click turn into a digital stalker?

It's the work of the Adtech industry that feasts on our cookies to sell ads.

This system automatically shares our data profiles with companies thousands of times a second, across millions of sites.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds

Open Rights Group

How do advertisers track you online?

You search for boots and click on a pair you like — just once — then decide they are not what you want.

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied · 2 days ago

How does it work?

Our cookie crumbs left across the Internet form predictive profiles.

These are shared and sold in a real-time bidding system that runs automatically when you visit a website.

The ad space is auctioned based on the interests gleaned by tracking you online. Highest bidder wins.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 days ago

How does a click turn into a digital stalker?

It's the work of the Adtech industry that feasts on our cookies to sell ads.

This system automatically shares our data profiles with companies thousands of times a second, across millions of sites.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds

Open Rights Group

How do advertisers track you online?

You search for boots and click on a pair you like — just once — then decide they are not what you want.

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 days ago

How does it work?

Our cookie crumbs left across the Internet form predictive profiles.

These are shared and sold in a real-time bidding system that runs automatically when you visit a website.

The ad space is auctioned based on the interests gleaned by tracking you online. Highest bidder wins.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied · 2 days ago

What about cookie consent banners?

Under UK law, you need to consent to companies tracking you. But the data regulator has been too lenient in how this is done.

That means we get hit with confusing or manipulative cookie banners.

So most people end up being tracked whether they want to be or not.

#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol

The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org · 4 days ago

5 Reasons You Need an Ad-Blocker

https://ghost.thenewoil.org/5-reasons-you-need-an-ad-blocker/

#privacy #blog #adblocker #advertising

The New Oil

5 Reasons You Need an Ad-Blocker

Some people claim to really appreciate targeted advertising. They say that they love hearing about new products, services, or media they might be interested. Others, like myself, hate advertising of any kind with an unhinged level of vitriol that I should probably talk about in therapy. Regardless of where you

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Japanese ads can feel noisy, confusing or just plain weird — but none of it is accidental. Copywriters bend grammar, skip verbs and use puns to make you want to spend your cash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/02/02/language/commercial-advertising-japanese-phrases/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #advertising #jlptn2

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Hex

@hexmasteen@chaos.social · last week

Looking at billboards and bus stops it feels like offline ads are out of fashion. I see ad posters for events hat happened months ago, public ads for museums and messages from the public transport organisations themselves.

Is it just me (my city) or do others notice that too?

#advertising

Tim Chambers boosted

The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org · last week

#Google Settlement May Bring New #Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/google-settlement-may-bring-new-privacy-controls-real-time-bidding

#advertising #lawsuit #RTB

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their RTB system is a step in the right direction towards giving people more control over their data. Truly curbing the harms of RTB, however, will require stronger legislative protections.

The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org · last week

#Google Settlement May Bring New #Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/google-settlement-may-bring-new-privacy-controls-real-time-bidding

#advertising #lawsuit #RTB

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

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Obscure_Rebel

@Obscure_Rebel@mastodon.social · last week

“ISRAEL PAYS FOR UK ADVERTS ATTACKING DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS”

by John McEvoy in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@uk_politics
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-for-uk-adverts-attacking-doctors-without-borders/

#Press #UK #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders #Advertising #Attack #Gaza #Propaganda #Hasbara

Declassified UK

Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.

Obscure_Rebel

@Obscure_Rebel@mastodon.social · last week

“ISRAEL PAYS FOR UK ADVERTS ATTACKING DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS”

by John McEvoy in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@uk_politics
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-for-uk-adverts-attacking-doctors-without-borders/

#Press #UK #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders #Advertising #Attack #Gaza #Propaganda #Hasbara

Declassified UK

Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.

Hex

@hexmasteen@chaos.social · last week

Is it just me (my city) or do others notice that too?

#advertising

Alex Block 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦

@alexblock@mstdn.ca · 2 weeks ago

Okay so my question here is what in hecks name were these potato chips made of before they updated the label announcing that they are made with real potatoes? #Lays #Advertising #Marketing #Canada #StormChips

A bag of Lays potato chips. The label on the bag states made with real potatoes.

Greg Lloyd and 2 others boosted

Rick Gaehl

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

On my walk in East London yesterday, I came across this view. I'm thinking wall advertising, ancient and modern...

#Photography #Urbex #Graffiti #Advertising #Psychogeography

Old, painted sign on the end wall of a building, advertising pianos, below which are modern graffiti.

Rick Gaehl

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

On my walk in East London yesterday, I came across this view. I'm thinking wall advertising, ancient and modern...

#Photography #Urbex #Graffiti #Advertising #Psychogeography