<story><title>Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>move-on-by</author><text>There is no shortage of good reasons to block ads. Passive ads no longer exist, if they ever did. They are all actively exploiting, tracking, and selling you- even if you never interact with them.&lt;p&gt;Some might say, &amp;quot;Stop using twitter&amp;quot;, but how is any American supposed to do that when the President of the United States uses it as his platform? Beyond Twitter, there is no shortage of school systems, police departments, and other small public interests that use their Facebook page as a sole means of announcements. They shouldn&amp;#x27;t be - but it doesn&amp;#x27;t change the fact that they are. The Ad industry needs strong and enforceable regulation, and quickly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DarwinMailApp</author><text>So there are essentially remnants of our browsing history linked to our devices shared among numerous ad companies.&lt;p&gt;They then serve relevant ads for us all over the web depending on where they are being paid to display relevant ads.&lt;p&gt;Twitter is at it. We&amp;#x27;ve experienced the same behavior from Google &amp;amp; God knows Facebook is at it too.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve even had conversations where the only connection we had to the web was our locally running Alexa only to see ads relating to our specific conversation 10 minutes later on the web.&lt;p&gt;Can anybody think of a technological approach to flagging this behavior?</text></comment>