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Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints

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The tech giant profiles account holders for ad targeting purposes — apparently relying on user consent as its legal basis. The series of GDPR complaints are being coordination by members group BEUC, aka the European Consumer Organisation. But Ireland has yet to issue a single GDPR decision against Google.

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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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Google also recently revised its approach to push for topic-based ad targeting, rather than cohorts.). Although a 2019 consultation , following publication of its preliminary report, featured breaking up the adtech giant as one of a number of potential remedies.).

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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. 2019: Firefox releases its Enhanced Tracking Prevention (ETP) features.

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Third-Party Cookies in Google Chrome: A Guide For AdTech

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Key Points Third-party cookies carry out advertising-related activities such as cross-site identification and profiling, ad targeting, retargeting, ad campaign measurement and attribution. This process causes lags in displaying ads and has a low match rate. The common denominator is to protect user data.

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The Evolution of Google’s Privacy Sandbox

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When Google Announced its Privacy Sandbox In August 2019, Alphabet Inc.’s FLoC Criticized and Replaced by Topics API On January 14, 2020, Chrome published an intention to implement a Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) API , the original solution designed for ad targeting in the Privacy Sandbox.

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Digiday+ Research: A guide to the top 10 ID alternatives for publishers

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In fact, most non-premium publishers depend on ad targeting through third-party cookies for over 80% of their ad revenue. Based on an interview with Iván Markman, Yahoo’s chief business officer, and Gio Gardelli, who leads product for Yahoo’s ad targeting, identity and trust. What is ConnectID?

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The Problems With Behavioral Targeting

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Although it is still one of the most common advertising methods, advertisers are actively looking for alternatives to behavioral targeting (such as contextual, semantic, permission-based, and so on). Secondly, behavioral targeting seems to have missed the mark on making advertisements “less annoying” for the consumer.

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