How about the sites with the obnoxious "sign up for our newsletter" pop over?
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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I've seen a couple of five minute long ads on Youtube. I really doubt anyone intentionally watches them.
To be honest I've seen a couple advertisements that I watched the full ~5 minutes. Both were game trailers that were really interesting. I would have rather had a "click here to view the actual trailer video instead of the ad version" button though. I was sold after the first 2 minutes, but couldn't see the full name of the game until the end.
Game trailers as ads?
Over 95% of the stuff I watch on Youtube is gameplays, collagehumor and tech reviews, yet all my ads are diapers or clothing softeners. I've no idea why their algorithm sucks so much for my account.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not getting "caught", and Google can fuck right off with any "terms of service" that I never agreed to about how I respond when they scrape my site without permission. I know that there are practical concerns here, but Google has done a masterful job of shaping the conversation so that many people think anything not sanctioned by Almighty Google with regard to SEO (let alone actual "blackhat" tactics) is illeg…
You’re giving permission to scrape by way of having a page accessible to the general public. If googlebot is bothering you so much, install a two line robots.txt and it’ll go away.
robots can ignore your /robots.txt.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#104Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#105I 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,…
Why were you using popups? Don't they annoy you when you are browsing?
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#106Does 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.
Wait, youtube red or youtube tv? Because one of those is a lot more expensive than the other.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
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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?
We have to keep it around for the admin control panels and management interfaces in some of our older (and not even that old) network hardware. Basically anything pre 2010 that uses frames and other crap like that.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#108Google will take a shot at a 1990's problem that desktop browsers have done away so long ago, that people hardly remember?
This seems rather analogous to digging up a corpse to give it a spiteful kick in the ribs and bury it again.
Given all the SEO spam in the Google search index, it is a misplaced priority to make a target out of sites with popups.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
#109Does 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.)
DuckDuckGo has gotten so much better.
I didn't think it was possible but I switched and I don't miss Google 99% of the time.
The biggest exception I've found is that the maps from open street map don't have street view.
Re: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
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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.
Most notably Facebook