Piggybacking is how an ad tech firm can drop a third-party cookie on a website’s visitors via another ad tech firm that the website has granted access, as covered in this explainer video skit. 
October 07, 2022

WTF is piggybacking?

Piggybacking is how an ad tech firm can drop a third-party cookie on a website's visitors via another ad tech firm that the website has granted access, as covered in this explainer video skit.

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