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82 Chrome Extensions Sell 6.5M Users' Browsing Data and It's Perfectly Legal

Security firm LayerX audited 6,666 Chrome Web Store privacy policies in April 2026 and found 82 extensions, including Stands AdBlocker (3M users) and Poper Blocker (2M users), explicitly reserving the right to resell user browsing data to third parties. Combined reach: more than 6.5 million users. Every one

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Omnicom Picked the One Programmatic Protocol The Big Three DSPs Aren't In

Omnicom announced on its April 28, 2026 Q1 earnings call that it is wiring Acxiom data into its Omni operating platform and routing AI media-buying agents through the Ad Context Protocol, the new agentic-buying standard, in a bid to recover the 64% of programmatic spend the ANA found never reaches

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Natural Language Is Breaking AI Ad Agents (and the Fix Is Boring)

If you hand a campaign brief to four different people at an agency, you get four slightly different interpretations. That is normal. It is also manageable, because humans catch the drift in review meetings and email threads before anything ships. Now imagine the same brief passed between four AI agents

Adobe Lifted Firefly Citations 5x in a Week. Nobody Knows If It Sold Anything.

Adobe ran its own LLM Optimizer on its own pages last quarter and watched Firefly citations climb fivefold in seven days. Acrobat's LLM visibility jumped 200%. Adobe.com saw a 41% lift in LLM-referred traffic. These are real numbers from Adobe's own blog post, not vendor

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The Publicis-Trade Desk Split Isn’t About Hidden Fees. It’s About Who Owns the Pipe.

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial Three of the world’s largest agency holding companies have turned against The Trade Desk in the space of two months. Dentsu and WPP pulled back from OpenPath in February. Publicis leaked an internal memo on March 18 advising clients to stop using the platform