
Apple ITP engineer on Chrome tracking prevention: It ‘has a long way to go’
John Wilander, Apple Webkit engineer and architect of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) solution, said Wednesday...

Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull web analytics from Safari
Facebook’s new first-party cookie. The company began notifying some agencies and trade groups of the solution this week and emailing all...

iOS 12 release gives users more power, marketers more options
Let’s dig right in. Changes to notifications make it easier for users to opt in — and opt out. The update gives users more control...

Taking aim at Facebook & others: Apple says it is ‘shutting down’ tracking from Lik
Apple further entrenched its strategic positioning as privacy protector against the ad tech ecosystem at WWDC, its annual developer...

Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote: An overview of the announcements
Earlier today, Apple wrapped its WWDC 2018 developer keynote, with a long list of announcements. Apple has four platforms: iOS, MacOS,...

Reddit’s mobile apps now let people view only visual posts, block ads through in-app browser
In a redesign of its mobile apps announced on Monday, Reddit will add an option for people to only view non-text posts, which could help...

Apple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the web
Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

Google responds to Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention with AdWords tracking update
Starting this month, Google is making changes to the way it captures and reports on conversions in AdWords in the response to Apple’s...

What marketers need to know about the Apple WWDC announcements [Podcast]
Browsers have become a battleground for ads, and Apple announced its latest salvo this week at their annual WWDC (Worldwide Developers...

How Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention works & why Google, Facebook could benefit mo
Apple has announced that the next version of Safari in macOS High Sierra, coming out this fall, will include Intelligent Tracking...

WWDC: Safari will block third-party ad trackers from following users around the web
Among the announcements coming out of Apple’s WWDC developer conference is news that Safari will prevent cross-site tracking. Apple...

A new language called WebAssembly is opening the door to the next generation of browsers
A still frame from a moving, generated landscape inside a browser using WASM If you think of the online world as browser experiences...

Report: Apple Pay moving to the mobile web, could give big boost to m-commerce
According to a report yesterday, fingerprint-enabled Apple Pay is coming to mobile websites. One popular angle on this news is that the...

Ad Blockers & Analytics: What Webmasters Should Know And Do
Ad blockers have been around for some time now and are widely used. The question around the end of the “free internet” and the impact on...

Apple Removes Apps That Block Ads In Apps Over Privacy Concerns
earlier in the week over privacy concerns. As other have said, it was curious that Apple allowed these kinds of apps to get into the App...

Beyond Safari: New Ad Blocking App Extends To Native Apps, Including Facebook And Apple News
Another ad blocker is on the scene, however, this one is designed to block ads in native apps such as Facebook and Apple’s own News app,...

Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren’t Winning. The Mobile Browser Is.
Last week, comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings, but its big...

Content Blocking In iOS 9 Unlikely To Bring About Mobile “Admageddon”
There’s a great deal of hand-wringing over iOS 9 and the prospect of “content [ad] blocking” in mobile. Some ad-industry execs are...

Users Could Soon Start Blocking Mobile Ads On Safari With iOS 9
To be clear, Apple never actually uses the term “ad blocking” in its latest developer specs, but instead says that the functionality...
























