"Instagram is listening to you and uses the contents of your offline discussions for targeting ads", thinks entrepreneur and developer Damián Le Nouaille. One day he saw an ad in his Instagram news feed featuring a product that he had never googled, liked or discussed on social networks. He talked about it with his friends in a cafe, though.
This article is for AdGuard Pro for iOS users exclusively. If you are one, there’s a chance you would like to revert to version 1.2.1. How and why — find out here.
Facebook should pay us a basic income, states John Thornhill from Financial Times. Look at Alaska: for more than 30 years an investment fund financed by oil companies pays all the state’s residents from $878 to $2,072 annually (the sum depends on the success of fund’s investment efforts, not on anything a resident does or achieves).
A launch of a new corporate website often excites the company much more than the users. AdGuard, probably, is not an exception. But we still couldn’t hold the agitation within the office walls. We proudly present our newly redesigned website — new.adguard.com! And besides, we’d like to ask you for some help :)
Weather forecast app AccuWeather was caught sending data about users’ whereabouts even when denied access to the location to a company named RevealMobile. Pressing button "don’t allow" in respond to its location request stops the app from receiving GPS coordinates, but still, lets it see and send the device’s MAC address and router’s identifier.
How does an ad blocker work? What does the quality of blocking depend on? How do some ads get past it? What differentiates ad blockers from one another? Such questions are not just a matter of curiosity. Knowing the answers can help one select and use a blocker more efficiently.
Just a few days ago, Apple announced that they "have never allowed apps on the App Store that are designed to interfere with the performance or capabilities of other apps". In this article, I'll explain the current state of things and - the show must go on! - tell about the new version.
