My breaking point came when I saw the headline for the 50th or so time: “Diabetes Is Not From Sweets! Meet the Main Enemy of Diabetes.” Only this time, instead of the usual imagery that ran below ...

In 2022, according to company filings, customers spent a whopping $2.4 billion buying clicks from Taboola ($1.4 billion) and Outbrain ($1 billion). In the same period, the two firms paid publishers $1 ...

1 weird trick to destroy the web (doctors HATE it) 1 weird trick to destroy the web (doctors HATE it) is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as ...

I had an idea for a joke website once. It was about at all the gross, exploitative, soul-debasing ads you see at the bottom of news articles or tucked into sidebars on a lot of sites. The headline was ...

New chumbox ads on X are annoying more users. BoliviaInteligente from Unsplash X, previously known as Twitter has introduced a perplexing new ad format that has left users and advertisers scratching ...

AT THE bottom of many online articles, including those on reputable news sites, there is a grid with thumbnails that seemingly lead to other articles. It’s innocuously labelled “Around the web” or ...

It’s been a whirlwind year of acquisitions, near mergers, SPACs and pre-IPO filings for companies in the content recommendation space. Why so much activity in just ten months? According to Yaron Galai ...