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AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by jonas21 »

arcticfox wrote: post #264
menegattig wrote: post #7

Few month ago we developed and launched an AI-based AdBlocker (called AdFilter) and also had several problems with Google Chrome Web Store. Almost every week they had a "strange reason" to remove our extension from the Google Chrome Web Store. We had more than 380,000 DAU (Daily Active Users) from 36 countries with all good feedbacks on Google Chrome Web Store, but even so, Google always tried to find a way to get us…

Meanwhile, there are blatantly illegal things on the Android app store with no touch at all from Google. (For example this Age of Empires "clone" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squid.ageo... ) Priorities clearly higher in killing ad blockers.

How is the game you linked to "blatantly illegal"?

Edit: I'm genuinely curious -- did they copy the actual assets from the original game, or did they just copy the style and gameplay (which would generally be legal).

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by VikingCoder »

ddevault wrote: post #248

Wikipedia summarizes fruad as "In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right." The user does not unlawfully gain and the ad provider doesn't have a legal right that's being infringed on here. Some legal resource I found online says that in the US fraud requires: (1) a false statement of a material fact, (2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that…

"I am this browser, requesting this content on behalf of the user, who clicked on this ad."

Walk me through this, okay?

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by godshatter »

inetsee wrote: post #136

I am curious. I have a question for all of the people who are in favor of AdNauseum. How would you react if a website provider was able to detect that you were using AdNauseum, and they blocked your access to their website? Edit: Expand the question to include other adblockers, not just AdNauseum.

If the website was one I liked and actually wanted them to get revenue, I would white list them in the extension. I do this on rare occasions when I find sites I really like that object to ad blockers. Usually, though, I haven't been allowed to see their content so no harm done. I just go find something else to click on.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by frenchy »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #81
snowwolf wrote: post #68

If the only reason Google have banned this from the Web Store is because it violates the Single Purpose Policy ( https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/single_purpose ) - i.e. Blocking AND Clicking Ads, then an interesting test would be to split the extension in 2 - One extension to block all ads on the page, and one extension to click all ads on the page. And then see if they are then both accepted into the store.…

Automated clicking on ads is a click fraud. It will never be accepted by Google.

Automate clicking on the ads by the website owner is click fraud. This isn't click fraud because the consumers never agreed to anything.

Doesn't mean Google will accept it, obviously.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by Aldo_MX »

VikingCoder wrote: post #270
Aldo_MX wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The advertisers don't mind paying for disruptive, intrusive, battery-draining, bandwidth-consuming, rich-media advertisements, so I don't mind draining their wallets.

You just said, "The sites I visit don't mind receiving money for disruptive, intrusive, battery-draining, bandwidth-consuming, rich-media advertisements, so I don't mind draining their wallets." If there's someone who makes content you like to see, why don't you mind draining their wallet?

If there's someone who makes content I like to see, I purchase their merchandising, books, courses, assist to their events, etc., that's pretty simple.

Why support the middle man who just makes the Internet a worse place when you can directly support an author's efforts?

The advertisement business model just exists to justify the existence of low quality content.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by arrosenberg »

joelwilliamson wrote: post #258
ajross wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is the exact sort of thing anti-monopoly laws are intended to work against: that a major market force in one market uses that power to intrude or support itself in another market. That's actually not true. There's some case law about that sort of thing (the Microsoft antitrust case being the most famous), but the basis for anti trust law has always been about price efficiency, not protection of competition for…

The case against Standard Oil was pretty explicitly because of anticompetitive behaviour, not price inefficiency.

The anti-competitive behavior was creating price inefficiency. Standard Oil owned almost the entire refinery market, and they were colluding with railroads so they effectively owned distribution. This vertical alignment meant they could effectively set whatever price they wanted because there was no other game in town.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

VikingCoder wrote: post #272
ddevault wrote: post #248

Wikipedia summarizes fruad as "In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right." The user does not unlawfully gain and the ad provider doesn't have a legal right that's being infringed on here. Some legal resource I found online says that in the US fraud requires: (1) a false statement of a material fact, (2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that…

"I am this browser, requesting this content on behalf of the user, who clicked on this ad." Walk me through this, okay?

I don't understand what you're asking for.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by ggggtez »

mring33621 wrote: post #195
Analemma_ wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes? I'm honestly not sure how you could think otherwise. This is a clickbot just like any other.

I'm pretty sure that, in the USA, choosing to click ads would be protected under the first amendment.

You'd be wrong. Many people, even Americans, don't really understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you can do and say anything you want regardless of the context or consequences.

Re: AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

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Post by DanBC »

mring33621 wrote: post #195
Analemma_ wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes? I'm honestly not sure how you could think otherwise. This is a clickbot just like any other.

I'm pretty sure that, in the USA, choosing to click ads would be protected under the first amendment.

Has a US government agency tried to stop anyone clicking ads?
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