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  • Comic: No One To Play With

    Google Pulls The Plug On Topics, PAAPI And Other Major Privacy Sandbox APIs (As The CMA Says ‘Cheerio’)

    Google’s aborted cookie crackdown ends with a quiet CMA sign-off and a sweeping phaseout of Privacy Sandbox technologies, from the Topics API to PAAPI.

  • Nielsen Sues VideoAmp; Rembrand Dials Up Product Placements

    In today’s newsletter: Nielsen sues VideoAmp alleging patent infringement; Rembrand’s virtual product placements hit social media; and the MOW, CMA and publishers cry foul over the Chrome Privacy Sandbox’s Related Website Sets.

  • Opting Out Of Google’s Topics API Won’t Affect Search; Meet SteamDB, The Last Pure Site

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Topic, Please Google recently published its latest quarterly progress report to the CMA, the UK’s antitrust regulator, regarding its Chrome Privacy Sandbox proposals – and there are several notable updates from last quarter. For one, Google is considering page-level metadata for the Topics […]

  • Dominion And Domains: Here’s How You Can Fix The Web

    Source: A Complete Introduction to Terry Pratchett’s Discword. “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees. Pillars The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was set up to standardize an open world wide […]

  • The Google Garden: There Is A Better Way

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees. “Upon the uncharted Island of Imagination in the middle of the Lake of Let’s-Pretend lives the ghastly Google and his retinue of gorgeous Google […]

  • What the FLoC?

    What The FLoC: Don’t Be A Sheep

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees. Since Google announced Privacy Sandbox, it’s used the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to shepherd the industry toward an outcome that benefits very few. […]

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    We Can’t Let The Open Web Become A ‘Tragedy Of The Commons’

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees.  The web was built on the vision that it would be free to the world as a public good and basic right for all. While in many […]

  • A new W3C group is being pitched - the Decentralized Web Interest Group - that would help identify the unintended consequences of web standards.

    A Potential New Crew Could Bring A More Diverse POV To The W3C

    The World Wide Web Consortium has 437 business, community, interest and working groups – and soon there might be one more. Around six members of the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) are pitching the creation of a new group, known for now as the Decentralized Web Interest Group (DWIG), that will help W3C groups […]

  • Chrome engineers presented a proposal for the Privacy Sandbox called fenced frames that initially appeared to be a compromise with third-party ad companies.

    Fenced Frames Is The Latest Example Of Ad Tech And Browsers Struggling To Find Commonality At The W3C

    Expectations continue not to reflect reality in the business and working groups of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In late August, Google software engineers presented a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox called “fenced frames” that initially appeared to be a compromise with third-party ad companies. When the proposal was first mentioned before actually […]