News
Follow the launches, price changes and new rules that change where you can buy ad spots. Each story is dated and filed under the companies involved.
3 events for DuckDuckGo
Open DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change
A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that had previously meant its mobile browsers and browser extensions were prevented from blocking advertising requests made by Microsoft scripts on third party sites. In a […]
How DuckDuckGo (and Microsoft) benefit from Google’s sprawling advertising business
Smaller search engines are able to monetize their results with Google’s advertiser base to reach searchers on those properties with as few obstacles as possible.
DuckDuckGo adds tracker blocking to help curb the wider surveillance web
Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it’s launched revamped mobile apps and browser extensions that bake in a tracker blocker for third party sites, and include a suite of other privacy features intended to help users keep surfing privately as they navigate around the web.
Ad buying news, by email
Get the biggest stories from our news timeline in your inbox.
Every line carries the date it happened, not the date we added it, and links to its source.
Subscribe to the feed