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Why Are So Many US Companies Using Cookie Banners On Their Websites?

AdExchanger

Although it’s not legally required, many websites in the US have started using cookie banners in a misguided attempt to protect themselves from lawyers who smell blood in the water. The post Why Are So Many US Companies Using Cookie Banners On Their Websites? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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European Data Protection Board Agrees Ground Rules for Cookie Banners

VideoWeek

Cookie banners were nothing new. Users were already very familiar with the phrase “By using this site you agree to use of cookies”, the go-to way of collecting consent. But the GDPR set stricter standards on what real consent looks like, meaning these banners had to be updated.

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Max Schrems’ noyb Files 226 Fresh Cookie Banner GDPR Complaints

VideoWeek

Online privacy activist group noyb (none of your business), founded by well known campaigner Max Schrems, has filed 226 fresh complaints against websites which it claims are using “deceptive cookie banners”, and not complying with requirements outlined in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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7 Smart Ways to Reduce Banner Blindness

Automatad Inc.

Share Tweet Share As a publisher, do you remember the last banner ad that caught your attention? Banner ads are traditional ad formats. Therefore, the phenomenon called banner blindness was born. Banner blindness has been here for a long time. How Does Banner Blindness Affect Publishers? So, look no further.

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How one tech company is doing marketing without cookies

Martech

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? got rid of all advertising and tracking cookies last July. You just don’t even necessarily realize how deeply entrenched an advertising cookie can be in the ecosystem and in all the tooling that you use,” she said. We took a slightly different approach.

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‘It’s going to make our jobs harder’: Effects of Google’s third-party cookie fallout compound for marketers

Digiday

Google has finally thrown down the gauntlet, making good on its promise to decimate third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by the end of this year. But as the loss of third-party cookies muddies targeted ads, some agencies are seeing the investment in display advertising decline in favor of streaming video and audio.

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Hold-outs targeted in fresh batch of noyb GDPR cookie consent complaints

TechCrunch Ads

As with earlier actions by noyb , all the complaints relate to the most widely used cookie banner software, made by OneTrust. But it’s not the software itself that’s the issue — rather the complaints target deceptive settings it found being applied.

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