Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
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Re: Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
#2Interesting development — Will be fun to see who all the freelance superstar adsense pros are.
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#3Would be nice if the information was not two clicks away but rather front and center, especially for political ads, but a really good step nonetheless
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#4>This change will make it easier for people to understand who the advertiser is behind the ads they see
Call me skeptical, but won't it just lead to shell companies?
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#5Would it possible for me to turn off all the ads from all the advertises?
Hypothetically, of course!
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#6Would be nice if the information was not two clicks away but rather front and center, especially for political ads, but a really good step nonetheless
This is the plan. Once google have verified the advertisers, they can ‘help users understand the source of the advert’ by replacing the mini Ad icon with the advertisers’ favicon, to increase transparency..
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#7Interesting timing right before a U.S. election. Likely trying to avoid Russian disinformation like in 2016.
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#8With verification, will Google be culpable the next time one of my users is redirected to a tech support scam from a Google ad?
At least twice a year at my business users are redirected to tech support scams from Google Search ads. Its always a similar story, "I searched for Amazon and clicked the first link".
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#9Interesting timing right before a U.S. election. Likely trying to avoid Russian disinformation like in 2016.
You realize they only spent 100k in Facebook ads in 2016?
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