Can they please also punish sites that cover whole page with that stupid cookie warning, thanks.
The legally required one?
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
#72I work for an e-commerce company. This absolutely brutalized our sales until we made significant changes to our layout. I understand that this instance is seen as a net positive for the end user, but Google should not have the power to force websites to conform to whatever Google decides is the new standard, or become irrelevant. The end user should be deciding what is and isn't worthwhile content, or where to shop,…
Not you either. If people come in through Google because they are searching for something and instead of arriving at the content that was advertised in search results, see a content covering popup, that's not really informed decision making. I think Google has legitimate right to rank sites that do this lower.
That's more ok for a smaller outfit, but now that Google is abusing their monopolistic market position it's not as ok.
Not to worry, the days of the U.S. government busting up monopolies seem behind us.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who gets this. I use IE at work and it is annoying. I have also noticed that Google's Captcha is more annoying than it is on Chrome.
I hope this is not too off-topic, but what features are we missing out on in Chrome that are present in IE?
Given that GP specified that they used it at work, it's possible that they don't use it by choice.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#74Does this mean they'll get rid of their own popup ad: Get to Google faster. Switch your default search engine to Google. Yes, show me. There's not even a "No" option. (Google is my default search engine. I just have their tracking blocked, so they can't check this. Lame.)
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Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
I've seen a couple of five minute long ads on Youtube. I really doubt anyone intentionally watches them.
I've seen multi-minute prerolls on videos <1min long.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#76Will they also punish those websites with "activate notifications" pop ups? I'm so tired of those and there seems no way of blocking, even after blocking notifications in Chrome settings.
Firefox let's you permanently block a site from asking for the notification permission
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#77It doesn't matter, ad blocking is here to stay and expand, and it's a ticking clock on this nonsense. How many HN users ever see an ad at this point?
If some people get it their way and the web becomes like a binary blob, it might become harder to block ads across the board.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not you either. If people come in through Google because they are searching for something and instead of arriving at the content that was advertised in search results, see a content covering popup, that's not really informed decision making. I think Google has legitimate right to rank sites that do this lower.
That's more ok for a smaller outfit, but now that Google is abusing their monopolistic market position it's not as ok. Not to worry, the days of the U.S. government busting up monopolies seem behind us.
If users heard there were better results elsewhere though, they would switch from Google. However, it is more likely that by doing this Google prevents itself from being taken over by a competitor that creates this feature.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who gets this. I use IE at work and it is annoying. I have also noticed that Google's Captcha is more annoying than it is on Chrome.
I hope this is not too off-topic, but what features are we missing out on in Chrome that are present in IE?
It is too off-topic.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#80Coming weeks after headless Chrome is released, wonder if there is a connection.
Not sure what you mean. Google using Chrome headless for crawling? I'm sure their crawling infrastructure was already more than capable.