When Adalytics broke the information that Forbes operated the subdomain www3.forbes.com, it uncovered a special form of made-for-advertising (MFA) website. The URLs behind MFAs are sometimes bland and unrecognizable, whereas Forbes’ hosted slideshow variations of its content material full of advertisements, and many of the eyeballs got here from paid site visitors.

Additionally, in some bid requests, Adalytics confirmed, the www3 subdomain wasn’t correctly labeled, so even patrons who blocked it couldn’t keep away from shopping for advertisements on the positioning.

AdExchanger Affiliate Editor Anthony Vargus, who has been monitoring the fallout, discusses the business’s response to the report – which impacts patrons, publishers, DSPs, SSPs, the MRC and advert verification corporations – and what it says concerning the state of advert tech.

Advert tech goes to DC

Then, Managing Editor Allison Schiff shares what she realized final week in Washington, DC, on the IAPP’s World Privateness Summit, the most important privateness convention within the nation.

Enforcers had been surprisingly open with their regulatory priorities and the place they’re looking for enforcement actions, she says. They aren’t on the lookout for “gotcha” moments to catch dangerous actors, however for corporations to behave in a compliant approach to start with.

Lastly, Allison discusses this yr’s regulatory priorities, together with the newest gurglings about federal privateness legislation. Repeat after her (and the regulators who mentioned it earlier than her): the magic strategy to complying with information privateness: act in “good religion.” Not like different areas of the true world, it’s the thought that counts, and making a good-faith effort to conform will go a great distance with regulators.