Our recent report on the state of the internet advertising industry’s adoption of the HTTPS secure data transmission protocol was featured in two media reports earlier this week
Ad industry HTTPS report featured in Business Insider, Motherboard
Posts Tagged: Security
Some impressions on Internet advertiser security
In our blog post, we describe the results of tests we conducted to measure HTTPS support on the advertisers found on a sample of news websites as well as two sample lists of advertisers. We find a large disparity between our results and the the level of security support referred to in a recent post on the Internet Advertising Bureau’s website.
TrackerSSL
TrackerSSL is a Google Chrome Extension that lets you know who is tracking you, and whether or not that tracking could be done more securely. The extension monitors all third party connections made by the websites you visit. It lets you know what percentage of third party trackers on a given page could support secure transmission of your web browsing habits, if the web page itself was only served securely through HTTPS.
TrackerSSL highlights insecure websites and their ad trackers
This post describes TrackerSSL, a browser extension that reveals the leaky ad trackers on webpages that leave your browsing habits open to surveillance.
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