If users hate these, shouldn't google's ability to rank the best pages already take care of this problem without special casing it?
Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
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Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
#22Because fuck people who are trying to get paid for their work? I mean, we can't all work 100% for free all the time like you must do.
EDIT: I guess people who downvote also don't get paid for their work, and don't feel anyone else should?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
On my iPhone 6s Safari AMP sites don't even work. I see the AMP header and everything below it is just blank. I always have to "Request Desktop Site" to even load the site.
Are you using an adblocker?
Do ad blockers break AMP pages? If so that is a pretty crafty way of killing them.
"Would you like to search and browse the mobile web through Google? Only if you disable your ad blocker."
I'd be shocked if they don't try to force AMP on the desktop as well next if this works out for them.
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#24Oh good, Google abusing their power again. I guess as long as it's for "good" reasons. edit: would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have?
Google's users don't like popup ads so this will likely make them happier with their search results and make them more loyal Google users.
So why is Google beholden to deliver traffic to websites that use obtrusive popup ads when Google's users don't like it? Is Google somehow morally obligated to ensure a website's revenue model isn't disturbed when trying to provide a better experience for their users?
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#25I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
Pay walls will probably inevitably be the only way quality content gets generated, given the increasing prevalence of ad blockers. As the return on investment for online advertising wanes, there's a good chance you'll see more of this, not less. Furthermore, most paywalled sites seem to deliver a non-paywall version to Google servers and when coming from Google search explicitly to avoid this happening.
Most of the best content on the Internet was created by volunteers, for free, in my experience. The rise of ad-funded content has done more harm than good, overall.
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#26Why only "mobile websites"? I hate em just as much when I'm viewing on the desktop.
I can understand why the desktop gets a pass, but I really, really wish they would consider doing it for sites which pop up those damned "Give us your email!!" forms. Especially those sites which pop it up almost immediately when I've arrived at their site for the first time. I don't even know your site yet. Just followed this link from somewhere else. And you're immediately demanding my email for your pointless newsletter?
Maybe it's just me, but I think I hate those things more than anything else on the current web. Maybe even more than autoplay videos.
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#27I'd really like to see them work on improving relevancy instead of swinging their corporate weight around at whatever "benevolent" end they decide is important this week. Considering how much time I have to spend nowadays tweaking queries and futzing with the search tool options to get relevant results, I'm starting to look at all of these moves much more cynically. Taking on anti-patterns is great, but not when your…
I don't find myself having to tweak queries to get what I want. Can you give an example or two of what you're talking about?
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#28You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?
On my iPhone 6s Safari AMP sites don't even work. I see the AMP header and everything below it is just blank. I always have to "Request Desktop Site" to even load the site.
You can just go to the url and remove the google.com/amp/
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#29You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?
The feature that finally drove me to DDG :)
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#30I wish Google would penalize websites with pay walls
Pay walls will probably inevitably be the only way quality content gets generated, given the increasing prevalence of ad blockers. As the return on investment for online advertising wanes, there's a good chance you'll see more of this, not less. Furthermore, most paywalled sites seem to deliver a non-paywall version to Google servers and when coming from Google search explicitly to avoid this happening.
> Pay walls will probably inevitably be the only way quality content gets generated,
Patronage model may be more important for most content types than traditional paywalls, though for some types of content (news, particularly) the interest bias the patronage model creates may be contrary to quality.