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Also, in loading ads from these vendors, many often included external JS to whatever flavor-of-the-month adtech vendors or trackers they were using.

These were often not even listed in the framework. There was little-to-no compliance/auditing that I am aware. It was business as usual for many ad networks.



A former employer in the adtech space did audit that the ads were only including vendors from the list, but I don't know how many of our competitors did the same.


How were you auditing where the data went for advertisers that lost the auction though?


We were on the advertiser side of the equation - we just wouldn't bid on european IPs with ads that hadn't yet been audited or failed the audit.


Ah okay, that makes more sense that way.


Am glad to hear some folks were doing that properly.




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