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Adobe Flash is a browser plugin. Chrome is a browser. How are they unrelated?
If you install Adobe Flash plugin for a different browser, Chrome gets bundled with it. Even if you don't want Chrome.
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No More Deceptive Download Buttons
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#142Google should detect and block the buttons, not display full-screen warnings. What next? "This site contains controversial views"? Or "Politically incorrect website ahead"?
They've already said they'll start shaming non-https sites.
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#143Despite all the legal attacks in the UK and elsewhere, this is probably the biggest blow to piracy sites so far. When one gets taken down another spins up, but if you turn your adblocker off they all have these awful adverts.
For organic traffic pirate sites, the biggest blow was Google's algorithm change. For websites which used a freemium model, the biggest blow was PayPal, Visa and Mastercard banning file sharing websites from using them. Todays announcement was merely a nail in the coffin for those sites.
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#144It's about time google crack down on these ads. The download button is just one of the many tactics. Any ads that show a guy with biceps three times the size of his head should also be banned. Yahoo is infested with these "sponsored" ads, and pretty much any other site that lives on ads revenue only.
Pretend to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity — like your own device or browser, or the website itself.
What you describe is annoying and perhaps exploitative of humans desires, but in the end no different from normal advertising and far less evil than the ads described in the quote above. You want a full ad-blocker. Perhaps you're already using one and want to justify it.
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#145This is a great move. Computers are extremely difficult and deceptive for those who can't remember the myriad of rules and gotchas.
What we really need is an open pledge of non-deceptiveness, give it a catchy name, and then advertise sites as conforming to it.
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#146Welp, hopefully they will make it optional and we can turn it off.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on other comments in this thread: does such an ad network exist? If all your options are terrible, you might as well use the terrible option with the largest ROI, right?
> might as well use the terrible option with the highest ROI, right? No, thanks. Does The Deck serve spammy, malicious ads? I know they're tightly targeted at the techy/designy crowd, but they're also a great example of high ROI ads that aren't terrible.
You can't just use The Deck, you have to be invited.
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#148This "Google Safe Browsing" initiative seriously worries me. It's effectively some unknown, mysterious, un-contactable set of AI algorithms/people/who knows what controlling the internet because Google owns everyone's browser.
One of my websites got tagged as "Dangerous" and having "harmful programs" despite having nothing of the sort. My guess is a silly hiccup of their neural network algorithms. And I have absolutely nobody I can contact about the issue to get an explanation. They just effectively killed the site in one fell swoop.
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#149I don't see the difference between "Buy this Pill to lose weight" and "Download this codec".
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#150This 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…
> 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. This may be a very stupid question, but are there no ad networks that are more trustworthy?
Well I used to work for a few Ad Publishers and they are on this list.