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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

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In the early days of programmatic advertising, ad targeting was limited to the context of the webpage and information about the user from the user-agent string (e.g., The GDPR came into effect two years later on May 25, 2018, and has changed the way companies collect, store and use personal data. an IP address for location).

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Why I’m glad third-party cookies are dying

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Ever since GDPR was rolled out in Europe back in 2016, the rules for how marketers can collect and use data have been getting stricter and stricter, but the real hammer blow will hit next year. A lot of ad targeting options will probably disappear, too, though Google and others are trying to build replacements.).

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6 Alternatives to Third-Party Cookies and Mobile IDs in AdTech

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2006: Popular ad-blocking software, Adblock Plus, launches. 2016: The European Union publishes its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), setting off a two-year countdown to its enforcement. 2018: The EU’s GDPR goes into force on May 25, 2018. 2017: Apple releases its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature.

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Digiday+ Research: How marketers are using AI to target ads, recommend products and provide customer service

Digiday

With e-commerce sales soaring in recent years, thanks in part to pandemic shutdowns, and the impending death of the third-party cookie driving a need for new data collection capabilities, more marketers are turning to natural language processing (NLP) and data-driven personalization to automate customer service and gather data for ad targeting.

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The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act of 2022 Explained

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The bill specifies that a platform or provider cannot provide an advertiser or third party with this data, and they may not target, optimize, or analyze advertising on the basis of it. The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act defines some examples of contextual information that it does not prohibit for ad targeting: .