Tag: cookies

May 30, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

Cookies remember website configuration, login details and products added to the shopping cart. For years they’ve also been the backbone of online advertising for targeting, retargeting, tracking and attribution. We’ve compiled a list of the most popular web browsers and explain how they handle first-party and third-party cookies.

May 24, 2019 by Michael Sweeney, Michal Wlosik

The lead up to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018, was akin to previous looming deadlines like the Y2k bug. The anxious anticipation and speculations set the industry on fire: GDPR-themed blog posts, articles, analyses, predictions started spreading like wildfire.

December 20, 2018 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michal Wlosik

Over the years, cookies have been the lifeblood of online advertising, driving targeted digital marketing and attribution. They are currently the most common method of identifying users online and enabling a personalized browsing experience.

November 2, 2018 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney

Cookies remember website configuration (e.g. language preferences), login details, and products added to the shopping cart, even after a user leaves the site, but because cookie files are widely used to collect certain pieces of information, they can also be used to carry out advertising processes like behavioral profiling and retargeting. Understanding the role of cookies in advertising technology is critical to getting a better hold on online advertising and privacy.

September 14, 2018 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michal Wlosik

First-party cookies are the lifeblood of every website, enabling businesses to remember key pieces of information about users and to collect analytics data. Third-party cookies are the bread and butter of AdTech, allowing publishers to monetize their websites, and brands to run advertising and marketing campaigns.

October 9, 2017 by Maciej Zawadziński

While the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its “baby sister” the ePrivacy Regulation may be full of ambiguous statements and legal jargon, one thing is clear; if you collect data from EU citizens, then your world is going to look a whole lot different come May 25, 2018.

September 27, 2017 by Maciej Zawadziński

Apple has built a strong reputation as a leader in tech innovation, and has stayed at the forefront of user privacy protection as well. With its update of iOS 11 and Safari, the company is taking the privacy of its customers one step further with a feature known as Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

May 24, 2016 by Maciej Zawadziński

As long as companies have the ability to track, collect and use consumer data for their advertising efforts, privacy issues will loom large. Consumers are being tracked online more than ever before, as opportunities abound for the display ad industry to turn data into dollars.

September 7, 2015 by Maciej Zawadziński

Before the days of the Internet, advertisers and marketers would target their target audience by showing their ads on TV at certain times of the day, publishing their ads in newspapers that their audience read, and putting up billboards in places where their audience would see it.