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Confiant Catches Cookie Fishing Scheme: The Bad Actors of Black Friday

Ad Monsters

Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions. Confiant found a cookie-stuffing campaign running across multiple programmatic ad platforms around Black Friday. What is Cookie Stuffing? Final Results DatalyMedia’s cookie fishing scheme was quite successful.

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WTF is cookie stuffing?

Digiday

24, 2015, this article has been updated to include an explainer video that covers a cookie-stuffing scheme exposed by cybersecurity firm Confiant in January 2023. One of the more tried-and-true techniques is cookie stuffing. First: explain what a cookie is? So WTF is cookie stuffing? Originally published on Mar.

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The Demise of Third-Party Cookies in AdTech: Why Are They Being Phased Out?

Clearcode

At the center of this are third-party cookies and their demise in popular web browsers. In this article, we explain what third-party cookies are, how they work, how they are used in programmatic advertising, why they’re going away, and what the alternatives are. Table of Contents What Are Third-Party Cookies?

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Lotame launches first-party data accelerator

Martech

Squeezing every last drop of value out of first-party data will become increasingly important in a post-cookie world. Raab in 2015, which stands for the splice of marketing, advertising, and technology. The announcement came on the first day of the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting in Florida. Why we care.

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The Perils of Hashed IDs: FTC Reasserts They Are Not Anonymous

Ad Monsters

With Google essentially pulling the plug on third-party cookie deprecation and instead heading in the direction of an opt-out mechanism, ad tech’s privacy terrain is still in a state of limbo. Third-party cookies and hashed IDs will not stand the test of time, according to Adam Schenkel, EVP of GumGum.

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Happy Ever After or a Deal with the Devil? Why Ten-Year Ad Tech Contracts Set a Dangerous Precedent

Ad Monsters

After being buffeted by cookie deprecation, declining search traffic, programmatic devaluation, brand safety blocklists, and various other regulations and platform changes that have made business on the open web more precarious, it’s no wonder publishers are seeking stability.

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

Paleo AdTech

Index itself was born in 2015 out of Casale Media, an ad network that Casale founded as a teenager around the turn of the millennium with some help from his father, an electrical engineer. Andrew became its majordomo in 2015 and has remained in charge since, during a period of prolific change in the industry.

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