Irony alert: eyeo, which owns the world’s most popular adblocker, Adblock Plus, makes it money by showing ads to users who have consented to see them.  Maximizing that revenue stream is good business, so it makes sense that eyeo has just launched a demand side platform to make it easier for agencies to buy ads that reach its audience.   The company was already selling ads through other DSPs.

Sales enablement and content orchestration platform Seismic has raised a $170 million Series G and used some of the proceeds to purchase sales training platform Lessonly for an undisclosed amount.  It’s Seismic’s fifth acquisition in as many years.  Total funding is now $440 million and the company says it just passed a $200 million annual run rate.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.