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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

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Post by tyingq »

AJ007 wrote: post #89
mikewhy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here is something that is equivalent, page level ads, which are identical to what Google calls interstitials - https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6245304?hl=en How will Google punish themselves? Or will Google just punish the publishers who bothered to follow their repeated recommendations to run page level ads on their site?

Watched the video, and they seem to rationalize it because the full page ad displays "between page loads on your site".

Meaning it won't show when coming from a Google search, until the user navigates to a second page of the same site.

I guess it's okay to irritate users if it's at least one step away from search?

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by darkhorn »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #68
Crontab wrote: post #67

Earlier 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?

https://html5test.com

http://css3test.com

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by PaulHoule »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #68
Crontab wrote: post #67

Earlier 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?

Competition.

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by ceejayoz »

rhizome wrote: post #74
Animats wrote: post #28

Does 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.)

Watch live TV with YouTube Red.

Yeah, that one's obnoxious. "Not now" - so it just comes back up in a day or two.

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by ceejayoz »

Larrikin wrote: post #76
girishso wrote: post #32

Will 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

I've seen a number of sites prompting via a modal that isn't the browser's built-in functionality. If you say no, it just prompts again in a day or two. If you say yes, then you get the built-in (blockable) "enable notifications?" prompt.

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by ceejayoz »

kindawinda wrote: post #93

i dont know why they always says this and never fulfill. search 'free porn' and youll see pornhub.com and xnxx.com and they have popups but never get deranked.

They may well be penalizing those sites, but in the porn world, everyone's using those sorts of abusive ads, and being equally bumped down in rank.

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by synicalx »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #68
Crontab wrote: post #67

Earlier 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?

Can't speak for everyone, but in my case I've got a lot of old legacy rubbish that I need to access through IE that just won't work through Chrome or any other browser.

Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Post by synicalx »

tyingq wrote: post #3

Google 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.

I suppose it's a matter of practicality - with most text heavy sites you can put ads around the text and it works just fine. But with something like Youtube, that approach isn't really going to be as effective because people generally won't be scrolling around the page.
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