Blogs
6/22/2020 12:49 PM
Webinar: Dispelling the myths of the Open Web
Recapping the recent webinar 'Dispelling the myths of the advertising funded Open Web'.
6/4/2020 11:22 AM
Dispelling the myths of the advertising funded Open Web
Join an expert panel to discuss the current situation in digital publishing, marketing and ad tech. Get the low down on Project Rearc, Privacy Sandbox, Reg walls and IDs. Understand how these projects might alter the advertising funded open web in 2021.
6/4/2020 11:22 AM
User-Agent Client Hints June 2020 Update
How have the UA client hints specifications evolved since January 2020?
HTTP client hints are an experimental set of standards that enable a web server to ask a web browser to send additional HTTP header fields and values in subsequent requests. The development has been led by engineers from Google working on the Chromium web browser. This blog post gives an update on what's now happening with regards to client hints.
5/18/2020 2:57 PM
51Degrees expansion with ISO accreditations and all-new website
You know what they say about London buses? You wait all day for one to arrive, then three show up at once. Well, this is a bit like that, as we bring you a trio of exciting developments in the world of 51Degrees. Read this article to find out more.
3/30/2020 3:13 PM
Product Update: March 2020
In this blog we go through five new properties that have been added to our database as well as User-Agents for popular devices and device detection data file updates for March 2020
2/13/2020 3:13 PM
Response to CMA market study
Online platforms and digital advertising market study
The Competition and Markets Authority is carrying out a market study into online platforms and the digital advertising market in the UK.
2/6/2020 3:13 PM
Product Update: January
We've started 2020 with the release of our Beta Program, and this provides access to the latest version of device detection and our new Pipeline API.
1/30/2020 3:13 PM
Copy of 51Degrees second response to Chromium proposal
Chromium proposal: intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
1/17/2020 3:13 PM
Copy of 51Degrees response to Chromium proposal
Chromium proposal: intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
Over the past two weeks, we have sought evidence to justify this change. We have found none. None of the industry stakeholders we have spoken to were previously aware of the proposal. This means that the usual and necessary protocols of public review are lacking.
1/15/2020 3:13 PM
Client Hints: User Agent v2
Chromium proposal to use client hints in parallel with diminished User-Agent headers
Chromium – the web browser stewarded by Google - have announced a plan to diminish the role of the HTTP User-Agent header in future versions of Chromium during 2020. While the engineering arguments for the change make some sense, the replacement solution – client hints – is far from proven, and details remain unclear. The proposal is yet to be agreed, and is just that, a proposal.