We’ve definitely entered the piling on stage of complaints about Facebook.

Here’s a sign of the times: publishing giant Meredith Corporation, which recently bought Time Inc., is selling its 450-person content marketing agency MXM to Accenture Interactive. Accenture is already among the largest marketing agencies; this just highlights its growth.

Google has given up on its FLoC cookie-less targeting initiative, which faced insurmountable privacy objections. The replacement, which mercifully does not reference anything bird-related, is Topics API, which will offer three recent interests for each individual based on sites they have recently visited.  The loss in targeting and tracking power is so huge that you wonder if Google is purposely showing what tighter privacy is costing the industry. Or maybe they’re just kneecapping competitors.