Outbrain (outbrain.com)

“Outbrain pays publishers to put its links on their sites.” – Source

Outbrain

Ethical design violations

tracker

Monetises you.
clickbait

Third-party exploitative content.

Block rule

Block domain outbrain.com

outbrain.com

Prevalence

High: found on 1.4% of surveyed sites (70 instances observed).

Notes

“Outbrain has acquired three companies—related content recommendation platform, Surphace (February 2011), content curation platform, Scribit (December 2012), and predictive analytics company, Visual Revenue (March 2013).” Source
“Outbrain has often been compared with competitor Taboola.” Source

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