My PSA to all the (big) tech engineers and privacy-pros who are singing the praises of Privacy Enhancing Technologies..... And some great research from @garjoh.bsky.social and @buquestrom.bsky.social!! This week's @monopolyreport.bsky.social monopoly-report.com/p/pets-what-...

New write-up by @bostonu.bsky.social's The Brink of our PNAS paper on the value of cookies & Privacy Sandbox for online publishers: www.bu.edu/articles/202... Work with Zhengrong Gu & @sjkobayashi.bsky.social.

Our research on the value of cookies & Privacy Sandbox for online publishers with Zhengrong Gu, & @sjkobayashi.bsky.social is now published in PNAS 🎉🎉. Check out this thread for an overview 👇

Quoted in this Bloomberg Law piece on server-side tracking (a.k.a. CAPI) and its legal risks. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/s...

Excited to read DoorDash's blog about how it uses Ghost Ads👻 to measure the incremental impact of its retail ad offerings. advertising.doordash.com/en-us/resour...

Quoted in this Marketplace piece on modern price discrimination. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Appeared on today's Marketplace Tech podcast to discuss the challenges & benefits of integrating ads in AI search engines. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

In honor of #GivingTuesday, my wife & I are matching donations (up to $20K) to the ASFOP Teega Wende Orphanage in 🇧🇫Burkina Faso🇧🇫, which supports over 200 orphans and we have supported for over a decade. 1/2

Quoted in The Wall Street Journal piece on Pinkfong, maker of the most watched YouTube video ever "Baby Shark". 1/2 www.wsj.com/tech/the-wor...

Gift article: "Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

The paradigm shift in performance ad creative is just mind blowing for marketers. open.spotify.com/episode/2BWI...

Google is largely shutting down the Privacy Sandbox. Surviving: CHIPS, FedCM, Private State Tokens Out 💀 : (Anything you’ve heard of!) Topics, Protected Audience API, Attribution Reporting API, Private Aggregation, Related Web Sites… privacysandbox.com/news/update-...

Today, the UK Competition & Markets Authority decided to release Google from its Privacy Sandbox-related commitments. Read more: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f213...

Quoted in this The Wall Street Journal piece on proposed standards for ad auctions, which are critical to ensuring the efficiency & integrity of modern advertising. www.wsj.com/articles/adv...

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...

Janet Yellen's husband & Econ Nobel Laureate George Akerlof: "...when presidents flip the board, it’s not just a game that ends. It’s the pieces of democracy that get scattered to the floor." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

I subscribe to @theonion.com for the ads.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Industry data shows that from March 5 until April 30, sales of U.S. spirits in Canada fell by 66.3 per cent compared with the same period last year. globalnews.ca/news/1129832...

This is Goose. He's here to perform his own rendition of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. 13/10 please enjoy

He lived and worked here for 40 years. My god I am so ashamed at what's happening.

The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Can Privacy Technologies Replace Cookies? Ad Revenue in a Field Experiment. This study suggests that current #privacy-enhancing technologies fall short of fully compensating for the economic value of cookies. http://spkl.io/63325fCCOL#privacy@garjoh.bsky.social @sjkobayashi.bsky.social

Quoted in this Marketplace piece on gen AI ad creatives www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

@OSchiffey covered our recent research on the Privacy Sandbox’s performance for publishers and its adoption after Google abandoned its cookie deprecation plans. @AdExchanger www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy...

🧵1/ Google’s Privacy Sandbox promises to replace third-party cookies with privacy-preserving tech. But does it preserve publisher revenue? We partnered with @weareraptive to analyze 200M+ ad impressions across 5,000+ sites in the CMA-Google field experiment. Here's what we found 👇

A recent @adexchanger comic captures the sentiment that Google's Privacy Sandbox is out with Google abandoning its cookie deprecation plans. But, is that the reality on the ground? 1/2

Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

President Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of a California venture capitalist and major political donor who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for violating lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, and obstructing an investigation into Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee.

Did a fun live interview for South Korea's Morning Wave in Busan on clicking "accept all" on cookie walls. 🍪🇰🇷🍪 www.youtube.com/live/EZRpwuV...

Happy 7th birthday to the #GDPR 🎂

When the viewability standard is 50% of the ad... 🤣🤣🤣

Sincera Offers A Free API For Some Of Its Prized Metrics | AdExchanger www.adexchanger.com/online-adver...

BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced full certainty that the massive fire at Marywilska 44, a major wholesale center in Warsaw, was arson ordered by Russian intelligence.

Nearly *three-quarters* of American wine exports to Canada vanished by the end of the second full month of Trump 2.0. Hard to overstate how much damage he's inflicted on what had been a $420M+ annual market for US winemakers. Whether this business ever comes back is an open question.

Seminar now up on YouTube if you are interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCka...

Presenting our work on Privacy Sandbox performance tomorrow in VIDE's online (free) seminar 5/7 11AM ET. Sign up at digitalecon.org. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=497...

Comic: Back To The Future | AdExchanger www.adexchanger.com/comic-strip/...

@aripap's take on the nuts and bolts of a breaking up Google's adtech business. news.marketecture.tv/p/questions-...

@mozilla.org news: "Powered by advanced privacy-preserving machine learning, Anonym Private Audiences enables advertisers and platforms to work together using first-party data to create targeted audiences without ever handing their users’ information to one another." blog.mozilla.org/en/advertisi...

Shared my thoughts on YouTube's 20th anniversary in this BU Today piece. YouTube has been a transformative platform for both advertisers and content creators. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Also a point also made by Jesse Eisenberg in A Real Pain

@NAI recently released the report "Tailored advertising powers the robust digital media industry: benefiting small businesses, publishers, society and consumers" It nicely distills the benefits of tailored ads in 10 pages. 1/3

For no particular reason, I'm re-upping my review of studies that calculate the value of browser cookies. Our 2020 Marketing Science paper contributes the median estimate: ad prices fall 52% without cookies.

Update on Google Privacy Sandbox : - Third-party cookies remain in Chrome - Incognito mode keeps blocking them. IP Protection coming Q3 2025 - New Privacy Sandbox API roadmap coming - Chrome to bring Safe Browsing & AI-powered security features privacysandbox.com/news/privacy...

DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.