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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.

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[Link] Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere

Read: 8/11/2021 www.theregister.com

A Register reader triggered a kerfuffle for Samsung after asking the electronics biz if he could disable large and intrusive adverts splattered across his new smart TV's programme guide.

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[Link] Advertising Is Content: Taskmaster Edition

Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

Many, many years ago on Techdirt, I wrote a lot about the idea of advertising being content (and content being advertising).

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[Link] Call of Duty marketing finds a new level of tastelessness

Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

The latest marketing push for Call of Duty: Vanguard wants you to believe its graphics are so realistic that conflict photographers can't tell the difference between the videogame and reality.

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[Link] ‘Asian Achievers,’ ‘Gay’: How ISPs Label Customers for Advertisers

Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com

A new FTC report has revealed that ISPs collect and sell a horrifying amount of sensitive data about their customers.

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[Link] This Is What Happens When a Drone Light Show Fails

Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com

Drones fell out of the sky at a failed light show in China, prompting panicked spectators to run for cover. A drone light show craze has taken over China over the past few years.

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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.

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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.

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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds

Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com

A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.

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[Link] Russian gay family in controversial ad flee to Spain after threats

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

A lesbian couple and their family, who were featured in an advert for a Russian supermarket chain that led to a national scandal have fled the country after facing online abuse and death threats.

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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.

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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.

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[Link] Google buys photographer's shot of seagull eating a chip

Read: 14/6/2021 www.bbc.com

Amateur photographer Hannah Huxford, from Cleethorpes, took the picture in 2011 on an iPhone 3G in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Now the image is to feature on billboards and online adverts for the tech giant's search service.

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[Link] How product placements may soon be added to classic films

Read: 19/4/2021 www.bbc.com

Product placement is big business for movies and TV series alike, and items can now be added digitally to films and programmes both new and old. Fans of classic war flicks will know the scene - actor Steve McQueen revs his motorcycle furiously as he is chased by German soldiers.

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[Link] Facebook makes the case for activity tracking to iOS 14 users in new pop-ups

Read: 2/2/2021 arstechnica.com

Today, Facebook began testing prompts to iPhone and iPad users championing the importance of being tracked by the social network for the benefit of small businesses that use its advertising tools.

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[Link] Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with ads for combat gear. See for yourself

Read: 27/1/2021 www.theguardian.com

On 16 January, Facebook announced that it will be “banning ads that promote weapon accessories and protective equipment in the US at least through January 22”.

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