Like this one I get every now and then across all of their services? http://i.imgur.com/f5NS6GQ.png
I wouldn't call that an ad. Nor would I condemn Google occasionally reminding users to check their privacy settings. In fact, I encourage it.
Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
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Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#12Google is very concerned about ads that visually block text content. But somehow forcing ads in front of videos on YouTube isn't the same exact thing? Both force an ad to be looked at before granting you access to the content you came for. I don't get the distinction.
Not to defend the ad industry, but I don't think these are equivalent. YouTube ads don't block content so much as they delay it, much like inline ads.
The equivalent YouTube ad would be if it started playing and didn't pause the video you're trying to watch.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#13Like this one I get every now and then across all of their services? http://i.imgur.com/f5NS6GQ.png
Particularly when you flush cookies and data on the browser session closing
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#14Like this one I get every now and then across all of their services? http://i.imgur.com/f5NS6GQ.png
I wouldn't call that an ad. Nor would I condemn Google occasionally reminding users to check their privacy settings. In fact, I encourage it.
That's not google reminding you of privacy settings (in fact if you want to change those this menu is highly impractical with a lot of nesting). This is google making you agree with their T&C to go any further.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#15Google is very concerned about ads that visually block text content. But somehow forcing ads in front of videos on YouTube isn't the same exact thing? Both force an ad to be looked at before granting you access to the content you came for. I don't get the distinction.
Not to defend the ad industry, but I don't think these are equivalent. YouTube ads don't block content so much as they delay it, much like inline ads. The equivalent YouTube ad would be if it started playing and didn't pause the video you're trying to watch.
Not sure I understand. Both are an overlay blocking content. I suspect Google would still punish an interstitial overlay with a countdown timer that dismissed it. If you don't click, YouTube sometimes makes you watch 30+ seconds of ads.
Here's Google's post about it: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#16Like this one I get every now and then across all of their services? http://i.imgur.com/f5NS6GQ.png
Or this one for search: https://imgur.com/a/gwrjX
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#17Google is very concerned about ads that visually block text content. But somehow forcing ads in front of videos on YouTube isn't the same exact thing? Both force an ad to be looked at before granting you access to the content you came for. I don't get the distinction.
Not to defend the ad industry, but I don't think these are equivalent. YouTube ads don't block content so much as they delay it, much like inline ads. The equivalent YouTube ad would be if it started playing and didn't pause the video you're trying to watch.
Why does pausing the video matter? Pausing the video sounds more like blocking content than not.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't call that an ad. Nor would I condemn Google occasionally reminding users to check their privacy settings. In fact, I encourage it.
That's not google reminding you of privacy settings (in fact if you want to change those this menu is highly impractical with a lot of nesting). This is google making you agree with their T&C to go any further.
Isn't that effectively a legal requirement? That users must make some sort of actual confirmation step to acknowledge the terms for them to be legally enforceable?
I mean, look at my submission/comment history, I'm literally the voice of Google criticism on this website. But it's hard to see how this little diversion has to do with pop-up ads. It's not advertising, first and foremost.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not google reminding you of privacy settings (in fact if you want to change those this menu is highly impractical with a lot of nesting). This is google making you agree with their T&C to go any further.
Isn't that effectively a legal requirement? That users must make some sort of actual confirmation step to acknowledge the terms for them to be legally enforceable? I mean, look at my submission/comment history, I'm literally the voice of Google criticism on this website. But it's hard to see how this little diversion has to do with pop-up ads. It's not advertising, first and foremost.
I don't know of any websites that force me to agree to a privacy policy so I can access it while logged off.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#20This is from over a year ago
Google later confirmed that the update went live in Jan:
http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-rolling-mobile-i...
I actually just added a full-screen video popup to a site a few days ago, and I made it so that it won't appear to googlebot. This wasn't for deceptive purposes, just because it wasn't relevant. I only show the video once to users, and it doesn't appear when they go back to the site...it's just a walkthrough of our products, which many people seem to need. I suspect many sites will check for googlebot and not show their popups to avoid this penalty.