I wonder who they were facilitating the targeting for given the target countries.

Apps should be required to disclose every single ad network they use as part of their app store disclosures. I want a lot more transparency as to where the ads are coming from inside the app itself.

I've witnessed consumer apps throwing quite heinous malware/sketchware advertisements and watched the banners rotate between 4-5 different ad vendors to keep things hot and spicy.

if anyone is well versed with this tech; can this be used to target regular people? how can an average joe protect themselves from this?

It doesn't make sense how this is even possible.

All ads should have to appear in an <advertisement> node, and users should have the option of disabling javascript within an advertisement. Make it the fucking law.

Quite amusing that the Crusader states have exchanged horses, swords and shields for spinny chair, ads, and adblockers.

Wonder what the world's most boring ideological argument will bring us in the year 3027.

Citzen Lab isn't always the most reliable source: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118492/

Someone should look at mergers of large digital advertising companies after Trump's most recent election... And then look at the timing of it. The countries involved happened to be Israeli and have many employees based out of Argentina. Which is crazy since the United States, Israel and Argentina happened to become extremely close after that election cycle... The CTO happens to have worked for Radware

https://radware.com/

https://www.innovid.com/about-us/news/mediaocean-completes-a...

tel aviv impressed

Whenever I think of Israeli ad tech one company always springs to mind, which creates some of the worst garbage on the whole Internet.

https://www.taboola.com/

This crap is the worst of the worst.