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Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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Build something so good, people will pay for it? It seems to work for companies like Netflix and Toyota.

But not companies like Google, or Facebook, or Twitter...

Nobody suggested there's one solution for everybody. I was just responding to the comment that advertising is the only monetization strategy and that's ridiculous.

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #235

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Here's a google SERP for "insurance": http://imgur.com/VUqwyPq Are you saying the bright "ad" lozenge next to the paid results isn't explicit enough? And anyways, users don't go out of their way to avoid clicking on ads unless the ads are utter crap. Google's whole business is to make the ads relevant to the search and the user, so who's to say the ad isn't actually a relevant result?

Somewhat off topic... but also, it states 1,010,000,000 results on the first page of this query but if I go to the last page, it comes down to 412 results... I can't believe that there is only 412 insurance related pages on the whole Internet... https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance&num=100&safe=off&s...

I think there's some weird pagination happening in your URL. If I take the "num=100&safe=off&start=400" off, it works as expected.

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #244

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And I'm willing to bet Google will make a special exception for itself. I actually posted a screenshot on my G+ page yesterday of the most recent fake download button I saw online... On a YouTube banner ad, served by Google AdSense.

Do they have a history of making exceptions for themselves? If not, then you winning this bet will be quite a big deal - it'll show them as anti-competitive. They'd be forcing customers to use their AdSense product instead of just-as-good competitors. Maybe they'll just give this "malvertising" detection software to AdSense who can then filter their own content before it hits websites. I'd be more willing to bet this…

Yes. On last week's story, a commenter mentioned how they decreed that web pages which showed a full-page ad on landing would be penalized in search, yet they themselves continued to show a full-page ad in mobile GMail for the GMail app, and it remained the first hit for "e-mail".

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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So if a site is using Adsense and doesn't require all ads are reviewed then as site owners appears we run the risk of another part of Google telling visitors that the site is malicious. Hope that the site owner tooling referred to is good enough that it can identify the advert, at worst the network otherwise only option would be to remove Adsense code.

I tried to manually review all ads. But my experience was that this is not possible with the given tools. It would take hours per day.

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #148

This "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 absolute…

According to the FAQ[0] of the safe browsing program, they attempt to contact you first, but there is a way to contact them. What if you can’t get in touch with the webmaster because they’re not registered with Google Webmaster Tools? Every time we add an unsafe site to the list, we make a reasonable effort attempt to inform the webmaster by sending a notification to a standard set of email addresses (e.g., webmaster…

A while ago I submitted my site for review and provided a contact. I got no response. I also got no such e-mail. In addition it seems they only send you a "notification", i.e. an automatic "We've blocked you" and not a human attempt to resolve the issue. If a human had been viewing my site it would have been 100% clear that there is no malware issue. However, since I do make use of certain HTML5 features after prompting the user, I could see why it causes a trigger if they have some half-baked neural network algorithm trying to identify potential malware based on JavaScript source.

If anyone is wondering, the site is a location-based file sharing app. It makes use of geolocation and file uploading capabilities. Largely a quick experiment, throwing an idea out there just to see if there's any need for such an app. It was running fine for a few months before Google decided to block it.

https://quack.space/ (which gives a malware error now on Chrome)

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/quack-space (ProductHunt page)

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #235

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Somewhat off topic... but also, it states 1,010,000,000 results on the first page of this query but if I go to the last page, it comes down to 412 results... I can't believe that there is only 412 insurance related pages on the whole Internet... https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance&num=100&safe=off&s...

I think there's some weird pagination happening in your URL. If I take the "num=100&safe=off&start=400" off, it works as expected.

It works as expected according to them if they don't expect you to look at all the results, I guess.

Please tell me what link you have at result #500, because I can't see it even if I remove the URL parameters and use the standard 10 results per page...

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #256

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I think there's some weird pagination happening in your URL. If I take the "num=100&safe=off&start=400" off, it works as expected.

It works as expected according to them if they don't expect you to look at all the results, I guess. Please tell me what link you have at result #500, because I can't see it even if I remove the URL parameters and use the standard 10 results per page...

That gets me "Portal: Health insurance - University of Bern", on page 52. The url looks like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance&biw=1440&bih=830&e...

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #238

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This is the first ad platform I've seen that is innovative in a good way, instead of the usual remarketing/tracking/native/data whatever bullshit. Seriously, awesome idea and execution. Have you gotten any press for this?

No press, just a reddit post[1]. Do you know anyone? :) [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/43qnen/if_you...

This is undoubtedly interesting content for writers and bloggers. I'll think on it and PM you if I come up with anything worthwhile.

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

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post #256

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It works as expected according to them if they don't expect you to look at all the results, I guess. Please tell me what link you have at result #500, because I can't see it even if I remove the URL parameters and use the standard 10 results per page...

That gets me "Portal: Health insurance - University of Bern", on page 52. The url looks like: https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance&biw=1440&bih=830&e...

I cannot go past page 53 when using the URL that you are referring to (they added some results that can be seen, it currently is 532 but it changes pretty often).

But the behavior changed since yesterday... yesterday it would have said "Page 53 of 532 results" and now it says "Page 53 of about 1,010,000,000 results" but most of them still can't be seen...

Re: No More Deceptive Download Buttons

#260

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Yes, there's good reason why I'm posting this from https://www.palemoon.org/ which is Firefox without the politics - Chrome is too intrusive and non-transparent about its intrusion to boot.

How do they fund their security patches?

fund as in finance?
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