#decryptads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #decryptads, aggregated by home.social.
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This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location
https://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/
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This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location
https://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/
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This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of #Ads that Track Your #Location
The #advertising industry is simultaneously everywhere and incredibly difficult to investigate. Ads can power all sorts of surveillance, from the relatively mundane like inferring someone’s age or gender, right up to harvesting their precise location data and selling this to the government. But researching that omnipresent #surveillance is, ironically, an uphill struggle because the relevant data is spread across the web, nestled in obscure files that most people never look at or even know to look for, and can’t be searched all at once.
A new #research tool called #DecryptAds hopes to change that by bringing together a massive corpus of data. It can show what advertising brokers are operating on a particular website, and, more importantly, many other places those same brokers are operating.
#privacyhttps://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/
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This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of #Ads that Track Your #Location
The #advertising industry is simultaneously everywhere and incredibly difficult to investigate. Ads can power all sorts of surveillance, from the relatively mundane like inferring someone’s age or gender, right up to harvesting their precise location data and selling this to the government. But researching that omnipresent #surveillance is, ironically, an uphill struggle because the relevant data is spread across the web, nestled in obscure files that most people never look at or even know to look for, and can’t be searched all at once.
A new #research tool called #DecryptAds hopes to change that by bringing together a massive corpus of data. It can show what advertising brokers are operating on a particular website, and, more importantly, many other places those same brokers are operating.
#privacyhttps://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/