Stronger Privacy Laws Could Save Advertising From Itself
Apr 14, 2017•9 min
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Episode description
Online advertising is terrible. Ads clutter your screen, slow down your computer, and drain your batteries. Publishers saddle pages with tracking technology that vacuums up your data so they can, ostensibly, serve you more relevant ads (though this practice really just leads to serious privacy concerns). Sometimes ads even try to install malware on your computer. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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