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"It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the
websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every
day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and
traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large
advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called
DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to
quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.
The newly launched decryptads.com says it is constantly scraping the files that
websites and apps make publicly available to disclose the companies that are
permitted to run ads or collect user data. These files include:
– ads.txt: all of the adtech companies and data brokers that may run ads or
harvest data from the site;
– app-ads.txt: entities that can harvest data from or display ads on mobile and
smart TV apps;
– buyers.json/sellers.json: the entities buying, selling or reselling ad
inventory for a given site or app."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
