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Hackers have increased their abuse of the Google Ads platform to target users searching for popular software products.Among the software products being impersonated include Grammarly, Slack, Dashlane, Audacity, ITorrent, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and more, reports Bleeping Computer."The threat actors clone the official websites of the above projects and distribute trojanised versions of the software when users click the download button," the report mentioned.The Google Ads platform helps advertisers…

Screenshot: AmazonOne of the big recent developments in the advertising industry are what’s called “retail ad networks.” Governments and tech platforms like Apple and Google are cracking down on data gathering, making third-party data a bit harder to get. That creates a business opportunity for big retailers and other companies that have large databases of information about their existing customers. Just about every major consumer-facing company you can think of has launched an advertising network over the last few years.…

Google Ad Manager outage affected New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. A Google service relied upon by many large websites to sell and display ads was down for about three hours Thursday, denying major news publishers revenue during the crucial holiday period, two sources familiar with the matter said. "The issue with Google Ad Manager has been resolved and ad serving has now been restored for the affected users,” Google said in a tweet on Thursday evening. “We apologize for…

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has asked Google India to stop displaying surrogate ads for betting companies for Indian users and to comply with the government's advisory in this regard.As per reports, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had, last week, sent a letter asking the company to immediately drop all advertising, direct or indirect, from betting platforms in search results and YouTube.Sources said that the tech giant has been asked to comply with the advisory.Earlier, the Ministry had…

Photo: LightField Studios (Shutterstock)Sure, the internet is great, but it has a serious flaw. There just aren’t enough ads. If you’re anything like me, you spend your time online casting your eyes across the screen, desperately hoping for another way to turn your attention into advertising revenue. At last, there’s some good news on that front, thanks to our hardworking friends in the tech industry. Starting December 23rd, Google is launching a new ad format called “side rails” that will show up on the sides of…

Photo: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock)Pull up Amazon to search for a product, and there’s one thing you’re guaranteed to see no matter what you want to buy: ads. That isn’t a fluke. The Amazon website and the app are so full of ads that it actually makes it harder to shop, according to recent reports from both Vox and the Washington Post. But if the company’s recent profits are any indication, don’t expect things to change any time soon. These days, Amazon makes more money from advertising than from Prime. It’s a recent…

Image Source : AP Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information. Google will pay a historic $391.5 million in settlement to 40 states in the US over allegations that the tech giant tracked users location data without their consent in the…

Google is selling oil firms valuable digital real estate that they use to downplay their role in climate change. Google is selling oil firms valuable digital real estate that they use to downplay their role in climate change, despite the search engine giant pledging it would stop taking money for ads that counter the scientific consensus on global warming, a new report shows.Researchers with the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a U.S. nonprofit group that studies disinformation online, examined more than…

Graphic: GoogleFor years, Google has offered users a master privacy setting which controls a major chunk of the data collected about you, but using it came with an enormous drawback: you had to give up a variety of useful features across the company’s services. Today, that’s changing. In a major revamp of its settings, Google will let you fine tune how data gets used for targeted ads without breaking the apps you use everyday.It used to be that the only way to prevent Google from using your data for targeted ads was…

Image Source : GOOGLE MEET Google Meet Tech giant Google has announced a new feature for Meet users to improve visibility by automatically framing the video. Before a user attends a meeting, Meet will automatically frame the video to ensure that everyone is equally visible, the company said in a blog post. There are no motion disturbances that could draw attention away…