TECHNOLOGYKREBS ON SECURITY
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
The new free service, DecryptAds, scrapes and correlates adtech data from public files like ads.txt and app-ads.txt to reveal which companies track users or run ads on websites and apps. By analyzing cross-referenced files, the service assists in understanding the advertising ecosystem for privacy and security use cases, such as detecting malicious ads.
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