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Flash is unrelated to a web browser? I mean I hate flash as much as the next guy... but how can Flash not be related to a browser?
You want to install Flash for Firefox, it will install Chrome by default.
This is a broad statement. Taken at face value, this covers all native advertising - with articles/images/videos/thumbnails/etc intended to fit in with the content of the site/app.
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At least theoretically, it should be possible to build Chrom ium with such customizations; you'll lose the benefits of the Google walled garden, but you'll gain a bit of user freedom as well (probably won't be point-and-click, alas).
Sadly Chrome sync is one of the major thing that keeps me on Chrome, it just works and syncs everything.
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I remember a few years ago AdSense was showing a lot of fake Download buttons (and users would complain about it). I haven't seen them recently, though, so I hope that means they've fixed that problem.
I just checked and the download page on getpaint.net still has a deceptive "Start Download" AdSense ad. That site came to mind because, a few months ago, I tried to be charitable and disabled ad blocking for a few days. That was the site where I decided enough was enough and started blocking again.
EDIT: I guess AdSense is involved with AdChoices somehow. My mistake.
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Firstly, this will work on ad networks other than Google, so it''s more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense. This is good. Secondly, and arguably more importantly, the way to stop these adverts is for them to cost the advertiser (in either money or time) without giving them the reward of revenue. If the ads stop working then people won't have a reason to make them. By stopping the ads in Ad…
This does not make any sense. Advertisers paying per view do not get charged for a view if crome prevents the user from viewing the page. The good news here is we now have official admission by google that allowing adsense ads without filtering is dangerous. And those of us who do not have sophisticated techniques that can detect deceptive ads have no choice to but to block the entire network serving them, if we want…
The cost isn't in money, it's in views. By not letting you click a fake DL button, the malicious ad doesn't lead you to the site it wants you to end up on, which is usually plastered with other ads and sometimes has malware lying around on it. The end result is that the malicious party can't make money off their own site's ads and can't redirect you to download god-knows-what onto your system.
Sourceforge, download.cnet.com and friends won't like this... also many of the streaming/OCH sites will be affected.
This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices. Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they should be implementing it at source on the advertisers (malvertisers). Instead they are pushing this down to the publishers and hitting them with penalties. It's a clever ploy in some…
I would expect an ad blocker to block stuff like this.
This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices. Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they should be implementing it at source on the advertisers (malvertisers). Instead they are pushing this down to the publishers and hitting them with penalties. It's a clever ploy in some…
This may be a very stupid question, but are there no ad networks that are more trustworthy?
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I just checked and the download page on getpaint.net still has a deceptive "Start Download" AdSense ad. That site came to mind because, a few months ago, I tried to be charitable and disabled ad blocking for a few days. That was the site where I decided enough was enough and started blocking again.
I just went there and saw a fake start download button, but it was with the 'AdChoices' network, not AdSense. EDIT: I guess AdSense is involved with AdChoices somehow. My mistake.
The AdChoices icon is used by many ad networks, not just Google's, to indicate that there's per-user targeting happening. [1] But if you click on that "AdChoices" button and you get an AdSense help page.