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Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users

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Re: Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users

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Post by rmorrison »

This is getting silly. If people are pissed about flash on the iPad + iPhone, then they won't buy these devices. But trying to employ the "taking away your freedom" argument is incorrect and seems like a last ditch flailing effort by Adobe.

It reminds me of the used car salesman in True Lies when he's posing as a spy and trying to get Jamie Lee Curtis to sleep with him. "If you won't do it for me, then how about doing it for your country".

Re: Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users

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Post by petercooper »

The piece doesn't speculate much on how this is getting forced through Adsense. That's the interesting part for me, as either Google is aware of it, or it's an against-terms workaround. If I had to /guess/, it might be related to the "rich media" and video formats they offer, with some custom code getting pushed through in the embed.

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Post by jimminy »

petercooper wrote: post #3

The piece doesn't speculate much on how this is getting forced through Adsense. That's the interesting part for me, as either Google is aware of it, or it's an against-terms workaround. If I had to /guess/, it might be related to the "rich media" and video formats they offer, with some custom code getting pushed through in the embed.

I didn't find out about the pop-ups until about 2am, and was exhausted, before I finished writing the post I accidentally closed the tab, and lost the ad, because Google yanked it, presumably. I'm still not certain about how it was occurring but it was all javascript, about a dozen different script tags, with the exception of this one piece that called the flash.

My main focus was on the point that Adobe was targeting specific users, with the pop-up.

Re: Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users

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Post by jimminy »

jrockway wrote: post #5

Are we sure Adobe is behind this? Anyone can make an ad saying they are anyone.

That's true, but why would someone advertise for Adobe? The linked content goes to Adobe's page, on the topic, http://www.adobe.com/choice/?sdid=GXRVD, as well as use the same ads as they used in the papers yesterday.

Re: Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users

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Post by petercooper »

jimminy wrote: post #7
petercooper wrote: post #3

The piece doesn't speculate much on how this is getting forced through Adsense. That's the interesting part for me, as either Google is aware of it, or it's an against-terms workaround. If I had to /guess/, it might be related to the "rich media" and video formats they offer, with some custom code getting pushed through in the embed.

I didn't find out about the pop-ups until about 2am, and was exhausted, before I finished writing the post I accidentally closed the tab, and lost the ad, because Google yanked it, presumably. I'm still not certain about how it was occurring but it was all javascript, about a dozen different script tags, with the exception of this one piece that called the flash. My main focus was on the point that Adobe was targetin…

Oh, I wasn't criticising your piece! I just see a bigger story in how the ad was delivered rather than to whom. Anything that gets around my choice of not opening popups is evil to start, but I'm very intrigued if this really is coming through Adsense or some other mechanism. If Adobe can take advantage of it, perhaps more insidious agents could too..
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