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With FLEDGE origin trials just begun – they finally kicked off on March 31 after multiple delays – publishers and advertisers need to get up to speed. But how is FLEDGE different from other targeting-focused proposals within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, what use cases does it support and – most importantly – is FLEDGE a viable and privacy-safe alternative to third-party cookies?

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Google’s Topics API was, well, a very hot topic last week. Ad tech companies and publishers jumped all over the proposal after it was announced, many with critical takes on the kinks that need to be worked out.

The Privacy Sandbox is bursting with news this week. On Thursday, Google shared a slightly more concrete testing timeline for its FLEDGE and Core Attribution reporting API. Two days before, on Tuesday, Google announced the Topics API, a new proposal for post-cookie interest-based advertising that now replaces FLoC. Google, which teased earlier this week that […]

On Tuesday, just a few days after filing a motion to dismiss the state AG-led antitrust lawsuit against its advertising business, Google announced Topics, a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox that replaces the FLoC API, which is being sent to bird heaven.

Roast turkey wasn’t the only thing to gorge on this Thanksgiving weekend. On Friday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s top antitrust regulator, published a 125-page document outlining the next phase of its ongoing antitrust investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox. (You can read the whole shebang here.) The document contains an updated set […]

Although privacy and online advertising are often framed as mortal enemies – or at least mutually exclusive – it doesn’t have to be the case, says Lindsey Shepard, CMO of Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser. “The advertising ecosystem online is fundamentally broken right now – I believe that,” says Shepard (although, you can call her “Shep”). […]