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Wednesday 28 October 2026

Israeli ad firm bid to track Starlink users, Reuters says

Reuters says Israeli ad tech firm Discover-Tech was the top bidder on Starlink users' traffic in over 100 countries, likely to locate and watch them.

Harper Quinn Wednesday 28 October 2026, open calendar5 min read

File photo of a Starlink user terminal in Argentina. Photo: BugWarp / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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Somebody has been paying to put ads in front of Starlink users all over the world, and researchers don't think it was to sell them anything. Reuters reported on Tuesday 27 October that the buyer was an Israeli ad tech company called Discover-Tech, and that the ads were most likely being used to locate and watch the people who saw them.

A white Starlink satellite dish standing on a patch of grass — File photo of a Starlink user terminal in Argentina. Photo: BugWarp / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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