I wonder how Taboola and Outbrain keep coming back even when i manually blocked them on Adblock and Adblock Plus.
Do you have acceptable ads on? They somehow managed to get whitelisted.
Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
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Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
And at least Google iAds give you the tiny little logo in the corner for you to click so you can report the ad that tries very hard to look like a download button :(
Only they never seem to quite get it: Google: here is x dating site, Me: click, mark as irrelevant. Google: here is y dating site Me: irrelevant Google: z dating site? Me: nope Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer?
I bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#53These ads specifically were the ads that drove me to ad blockers. I resisted for years, as I took the stance I simply didn't visit sites that had overly obnoxious ads. I've had flash turned off for years so that likely cut down on a lot of that garbage anyway. Then these fake "Other things you might like" ads started appearing around many sites. Occasionally somewhat relevant, but always click-bait headlines. I was e…
U-Block Origins. Always.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Google ads takes the long term view and doesn't tolerate shit like that. They are very strict and would rather not take that money and destroy their brand. Result? People still use Google to search for stuff." Are you sure? I've seen loads and loads of some of the trashiest ads through Google's ad network.
And at least Google iAds give you the tiny little logo in the corner for you to click so you can report the ad that tries very hard to look like a download button :(
The problem with that button is that whenever the ad slips past through an adblocker people like myself will click it regardless of what the ad is showing and report it.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only they never seem to quite get it: Google: here is x dating site, Me: click, mark as irrelevant. Google: here is y dating site Me: irrelevant Google: z dating site? Me: nope Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer?
You can change the google settings to specifically give you ads about topics you like https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Ah, the "Choose your Vaselin flavor" option.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#56These ad networks tend to distribute redirect JavaScript. I know of at least one newsroom that has editors all getting redirected to spam sites. From their own publication!
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only they never seem to quite get it: Google: here is x dating site, Me: click, mark as irrelevant. Google: here is y dating site Me: irrelevant Google: z dating site? Me: nope Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer?
I bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.
They're extracting right till the moment they aren't - ever again.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#58Honest question: How many people are left without some form of ad-blocking? It seems to have become incredibly ubiquitous, and when malicious ads aren't teaching people to go and get it, loud and obnoxious ads are.
I don't use an ad blocker. I just avoid using websites that are covered in ads unless I really need to.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
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Mobile users. There just aren't any pleasant ad free browser experiences for stock mobile phone users. Firefox for Android is quite poor and fixing through chrome requires root, something most users are not going to be doing
I have heard good things about block-this, which creates a VPN connection that just strips out ads, but it seems (unscientifically, because Android doesn't track VPN battery usage) a battery suck.
yeah and it collects those ad avoiding users' data easier than any conent network could. way to go. I mean, that's what I'd suspect.
Re: Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mobile users. There just aren't any pleasant ad free browser experiences for stock mobile phone users. Firefox for Android is quite poor and fixing through chrome requires root, something most users are not going to be doing
I have heard good things about block-this, which creates a VPN connection that just strips out ads, but it seems (unscientifically, because Android doesn't track VPN battery usage) a battery suck.
yeah and it collects those ad avoiding users' data easier than any conent network could. way to go. I mean, that's what I'd suspect.