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Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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That website looks so dated nowadays. Really needs a revamp.

Probably because they've been putting all of their resources into the app which they advertise so annoyingly.

Also probably because like Spotify, they are paying every penny they get for royalties.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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Does this apply to "please subscribe to our stupid newsletter" that obscures many sites now?

For those I just enter webmaster@ or even the author's email if that's listed :P

god@heaven.mil

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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what about the companies who dont have a mobile web version? All they have is a page to install app when opened on mobile? Do they show the desktop version or kill that page? eg. Flipkart and Myntra

Those don't qualify as "mobile app ads" really. Those are actual websites that merely link to a mobile app.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

#235

Is it Google's "job" to police websites in this fashion?

Google isn't banning websites, only denying them "mobile friendly" status, which naturally downranks them. Fair enough too. When you click a search result link, you want the information, not a full screen ad that's hard to close.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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Exactly. And, even worse, when trying to play the video on youtube on mobile, I often get "this video is not available in embed mode, please click here to go to youtube, and it reloads the same page -.-

Are mobile devs not eating their own cooking anymore? I can't do anything on a smartphone anymore, outside of some very well worn ruts, that doesn't involve encountering some annoyance like this somewhere between twice an hour to every other minute.

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Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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Does this apply to "please subscribe to our stupid newsletter" that obscures many sites now?

For those I just enter webmaster@ or even the author's email if that's listed :P

all mine go straight to bobby tables.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

#238

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Ohhh. I like that idea. I'm going to start doing that.

Your installs are improving their App Store ranking anyway though!

Not if you uninstall right away.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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The problem in the Microsoft case was use of near-monopoly in one market (operating systems) to gain unfair advantage in another market (browsers), though even that seems a bit outdated already since the idea of shipping an OS without a browser built-in seems ludicrous today. In any case, that concept of using monopoly power in one market to bolster power in another doesn't really apply here with Google. I share a lo…

This applies directly to Google. Remember them pushing Chrome on you? having ads directly on Google.com? To this day forcing you to use Chrome for Hangouts? And so on? Do you seriously think Chrome would have caught on if it weren’t for this push of advertisements? This is direct abuse of near-monopoly in one market (search engines) to gain unfair advantage in another market (browsers).

Chrome didn't catch on at first - they had to advertise the shit out of it on TV because nobody knew what a browser was.

Seriously, look up "Dear Sophie" to see how many awards it won. Google doesn't do TV, so that's not a monopoly.

Re: Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

#240
So they're still not punishing sites that force redirect your mobile browser to a failed app download page I see. I shouldn't have to worry about my browser unintentionally trying to download the Draftkings app from a sports blog I'm reading.
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