Firefox Will Show Ads Based On Your Browsing History

Mozilla has announced Firefox will soon do a Google, meaning it’s going to start showing sponsored ads based on your browsing history. As of next week, Firefox Beta users will start seeing “Suggested” tiles when they open a new tab. Currently, opening a new tab in Firefox presents a screen with tiles from sites you previously visited. Now some of those tiles are going to be ads based on your browsing history. For example, if you’ve been searching for a new camera, one of the tabs might lead you to the website of a camera store.

Google Fiber starts testing targeted, trackable TV ads

For all of the other things it does, Google is still a company that makes a ton of money from advertising, and now it's turning that focus to TV. This week the companyannounced that it's testing a new kind of ad-tracking system for Google Fiber TV customers in Kansas City.

Facebook introduces 'Relevance Score' for ads

In another effort to refine and improve ads that users see in their Facebook News Feeds, the company introduced a Relevance Score for ads this week.

Google killed 500 million bad ads in 2014

This past summer, Google started noticing ads for vacation homes that didn't exist. The ads themselves weren't fishy — there was no malware or counterfeit goods — but there was something suspicious behind them. The photos were all pulled from other listings or from stock photo sites, and didn't match with the addresses. The ads were real, but the homes weren't.