BIGtoken launches TotalOptOut
BIGtoken, whose primary business is to give consumers ways to monetize their data by filling out surveys, doing social referrals, and watching ads for pay, has launched TotalOptOut. The new site helps consumers by bringing together links to such places as Oracle Opt-Out, YourAdChoices, and the National Do Not Call Phone Registry to block unwanted ads.
Facebook sues the Irish Data Protection Commission In an effort to fight losing EU data as a result of this summer’s Schrems II ruling, Facebook’s lawyers have applied to Irish judges for a judicial review. Facebook’s hope is to have regulators take a modulated approach until a new more favorable solution can be reached.
One sign that AI is taking over will be marketing campaigns designed for AI to manage. Right on cue, our friends at Facebook have limited the number of ad variations allowed per page so their machine learning tools can learn more quickly which versions work best. Did you really need yet another sign of the apocalypse?
“Ask Meta AI anything” is what you now see instead of the traditional search bar across Meta apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI will still perform the basic search function but will also answer questions and chat with you. It should hardly be a surprise when a tech company launches a genAI solution these days but this is a bold challenge to Google and Open.ai (it’s also available as a standalone tool at Meta.ai).