Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The Washington Post | Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal privacy complaint (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Ad Blocking’s Old Guard Remains Strong, But Faces Growing Competition (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Quarterly earnings for Google, Facebook reflect growing dominance in digital ad market (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads (4 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | As Media Companies Pivot to Video, Will They Actually Make It Work? (4 min read)
• The Membership Puzzle Project | The time is now. Three things we’re hearing from media orgs about membership (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Discovery’s $12 Billion Binge on Comfort-Food TV (5 min read)
• Digiday | Advertisers warm to Amazon’s increasing ad pitch (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users (6 min read)
• The Guardian | Why is Google spending record sums on lobbying Washington? (5 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Is The New York Times vs. The Washington Post vs. Trump the Last Great Newspaper War? (35 min read)