Blog
Updates, methodology notes, and examples from the DecryptAds team.
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Related publishers in minutes, not hours
Paste one hostname or a list. Connection report finds related publishers, writes a brief, and draws the graph — ads.txt, seats, certs, and tracking IDs.
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Ad+Privacy Metrics: See What Fires Before Anyone Clicks Accept
Lab-crawls of the live homepage: ad density, trackers, and a pre- vs post-consent split so you can see what already fired before anyone clicked Accept.
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The Ad Tech Industry is a Non-Transparent Mess, and DecryptAds Aims to Do Something About It
DecryptAds launch: geo-risk, legal dossier, data brokers, quiet removals, MFA scoring, and how to start exploring the corpus.
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From company name to verifiable identity
Legal dossier walkthrough: entities, officers, domains, and cited sources you can open and confirm yourself.
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App store catalog: search mobile and CTV
Play, App Store, Roku, Fire TV, and Samsung TV, with app risk scores and CTV lookups.
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What DecryptAds analyzes — and why it matters
Programmatic advertising is hard to see end-to-end. Here’s how DecryptAds turns ads.txt, sellers.json, and bid logs into research-grade evidence — auto-investigation, publisher and ad-system profiles, geo-risk, quiet removals, and more.
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How to use the API
Get a token, send it in a header, and make your first curl or Postman request.
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Using DecryptAds with MCP
Connect Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT to the hosted MCP bridge at mcp.decryptads.com.