Supporting the new ads.txt IAB standard
The ads.txt
file is a new well-known URL location published as https://example.com/ads.txt
that is
standardized by IAB. The purpose of this file is to disclose the advertising and tracking providers used by the website. The file is intended to increase the transparency of Internet advertising market and declared advertising providers that are authorized to post and resell traffic to the publisher's website.
We are pleased to announce that WebCookies.org now supports ads.txt
both as a publisher (see https://webcookies.org/ads.txt) as well as web privacy scanner. Newly scanned websites will be checked for the presence of ads.txt
file and the list of those currently known is published at /ads/txt/.