This is part of a planned package of additional laws to criminalize and punish abusive online behavior particularly toward women and girls.
That is to capture license plate numbers of customer cars and print them on meal bags, so those found littering after their McMeal can be identified. The Welsh government proposed this to other fast-food companies too, though it acknowledges whichever one goes first might find customers switching to others for privacy.
The gradual erosion of Facebook and Google’s advertising duopoly is an important if slow-moving trend. Bloomreach is moving things along with an integration that can send target audiences to Snapchat as easily as Facebook and Google. They can also use AI to select the best audiences for each ad.
BrightEdge reports that, despite huge growth, AI search engines still provide less than 1% of website referral traffic. You might think that’s a reason to ignore your ranking in AI search engines, but BrightEdge argues those rankings are still important because the main role of AI search is discovery, not referrals. Seems like a testable hypothesis. What we know for certain is that over-all traffic has dropped as users switch from traffic-generating traditional search to traffic-stifling AI search engines.