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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

Check My Ads Institute Policy Platform The digital advertising industry has grown into a $750 billion juggernaut. It is largely unregulated, deeply opaque, and increasingly harmful. Adtech companies extract personal data, enable fraud, and fund harmful and illegal content. These middlemen siphon value from advertisers and publishers while benefitting from the monetization of everything from AI-spam to sanctioned foreign propaganda—without advertisers evening knowing it’s happening. In this unchecked marketplace, the public pays the price: with our privacy, with our trust, and with the very foundations of our democratic information ecosystem. It doesn’t have to be this way.