If you click through, you're more likely going to be interested in the two that this page links to. The Bloomberg report is more recent (last week) while Citizen Lab's own reporting on the topic is dated from April. You'll need to read either (both?) to get a full sense of what this particular linked piece is actually referencing.
Yet another reason why every browser should include an ad blocker by default as part of its malware and tracking protection.
From a legal standpoint, the issue of liability really needs to be clarified once and for all. A website should be fully responsible for everything it embeds. If an ad spreads malware or tracks visitors, it should be treated as if the site operator had done so themselves. If the risk is too great for most site operators, then we’ll just have to go back to old fashioned forms of advertising. For example, simply a banner that the website operator hosts themselves and receives a fixed amount for.
Indeed, centralized inference by a few providers gives you massive more information regarding what people are doing and what's the intent behind, making these ad-bases surveillance systems of what sites you visit look like from the stone age.
The article makes clear they are largely using data sold by location-enabled apps, even though the title refers to ads.
Browser based ads are also a vector, but the information sold by app providers and app SDK providers can deliver much more information.
If you click through, you're more likely going to be interested in the two that this page links to. The Bloomberg report is more recent (last week) while Citizen Lab's own reporting on the topic is dated from April. You'll need to read either (both?) to get a full sense of what this particular linked piece is actually referencing.
Does it comment how the browser imposed ban on powerful adblockers impacted this? (uBlock origin etc)
Another reason to use adblockers! The internet is not just unbearable but also dangerous without it.
FBI agrees, from 2022: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...
to read Bloomberg's article about how bad advertising tech schemes have become, you have to accept advertising cookies :/
- I sure hope they wont be surveiling me today
%surveillance factory%
Miranda.
Yet another reason why every browser should include an ad blocker by default as part of its malware and tracking protection. From a legal standpoint, the issue of liability really needs to be clarified once and for all. A website should be fully responsible for everything it embeds. If an ad spreads malware or tracks visitors, it should be treated as if the site operator had done so themselves. If the risk is too great for most site operators, then we’ll just have to go back to old fashioned forms of advertising. For example, simply a banner that the website operator hosts themselves and receives a fixed amount for.
Agentic browsing is going to shit on that system soon.
It's in games and applications too.
Your agent is spying on you
I done the basin and put im thro is paces, all on me Jack
Indeed, centralized inference by a few providers gives you massive more information regarding what people are doing and what's the intent behind, making these ad-bases surveillance systems of what sites you visit look like from the stone age.