Ad Observer 2.2.13 CRX for Chrome
A Free Social & Communication Extension
Published By The Facebook Political Ad Collector team
Ad Observer (enliecaalhkhhihcmnbjfmmjkljlcinl): A browser extension to share data about your social feed with researchers and journalists to increase transparency.... Read More > or Download Now >
Ad Observer for Chrome
Tech Specs
- • Type: Browser Extension
- • Latest Version: 2.2.13
- • Price: Freeware
- • Offline: No
- • Developer: The Facebook Political Ad Collector team
User Reviews
- • Rating Average
- 4.32 out of 5
- • Rating Users
- 28
Download Count
- • Total Downloads
- 236
- • Current Version Downloads
- 2
- • Updated: November 8, 2022
Ad Observer is a free Social & Communication Extension for Chrome. You could download the latest version crx file or old version crx files and install it.
More About Ad Observer
The Political Ad Collector is a crowdsourcing tool, maintained by national Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, that will gather political ads from user's Facebook News Feeds.
(The Globe and Mail, a partner on the ad collector, has taken over stewardship of the project which was previously maintained by ProPublica.)
When users log into Facebook, the tool will collect the ads displayed on the user's news feed and guess which ones are political. The tool will also show users political ads that others are seeing, but that weren’t targeted at them.
The tool does not collect any personally identifiable information, and will not learn which ads are shown to which user. The political ads that are collected will be contributed to a public database.
We use the ads for journalistic purposes: covering Facebook, political messaging and digital advertising tactics.
This extension is part of a partnership between The Globe and Mail and many news organizations around the world.
Our partners include:
- ProPublica (United States)
- Openpolis (Italy)
- Republik (Switzerland)
- The Guardian Australia
- Der Spiegel (Germany)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
- Tagesschau (Germany)
- Dutch Public Broadcasting (Netherlands)
- the Information (Denmark)
- VRT NWS (Belgium)
- De Tijd (Belgium)
- CBC (Canada)
- Animal Político (Mexico)
- The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica
- Deseret News (Utah)
- The Bridge (Michigan)
- WRAL (North Carolina)
- The Stranger (Washington state)
- Gizmodo
- Univision
- The Tampa Bay Times (Florida)
(The Globe and Mail, a partner on the ad collector, has taken over stewardship of the project which was previously maintained by ProPublica.)
When users log into Facebook, the tool will collect the ads displayed on the user's news feed and guess which ones are political. The tool will also show users political ads that others are seeing, but that weren’t targeted at them.
The tool does not collect any personally identifiable information, and will not learn which ads are shown to which user. The political ads that are collected will be contributed to a public database.
We use the ads for journalistic purposes: covering Facebook, political messaging and digital advertising tactics.
This extension is part of a partnership between The Globe and Mail and many news organizations around the world.
Our partners include:
- ProPublica (United States)
- Openpolis (Italy)
- Republik (Switzerland)
- The Guardian Australia
- Der Spiegel (Germany)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
- Tagesschau (Germany)
- Dutch Public Broadcasting (Netherlands)
- the Information (Denmark)
- VRT NWS (Belgium)
- De Tijd (Belgium)
- CBC (Canada)
- Animal Político (Mexico)
- The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica
- Deseret News (Utah)
- The Bridge (Michigan)
- WRAL (North Carolina)
- The Stranger (Washington state)
- Gizmodo
- Univision
- The Tampa Bay Times (Florida)
