Tag: Mobile Ads
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A Simple Way to Make It Harder for Mobile Ads to Track You
If you’re not careful, most of what you do online and in mobile apps will wind up fueling targeted advertising, all that data feeding into …
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Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games
An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics (but really serving up a blizzard of ads) had a short run on Google Play. It was …
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Pop-Up Mobile Ads Surge as Sites Scramble to Stop Them
redirect you from your daily browsing to a flashy sweepstakes have long been an incredibly annoying facet of the internet. But the versions …
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It Takes Just $1000 to Track Someone’s Location With Mobile Ads
the nagging privacy risks of online advertising, you may find comfort in the thought of a vast, abstract company like Pepsi or Nike viewing …
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Identifying Intrusive Mobile Apps using Peer Group Analysis
Posted by Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson of Google’s Security and Privacy team Mobile apps entertain and assist us, make it easy to communicate with friends and family, and provide tools ranging from maps to electronic wallets. But these apps could also seek more device information than they need to do their job,…
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