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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#91

Has anyone ever actually even purchased anything just because of an ad? In fact, these days ads have the opposite effect: A repetitive ad turns people off from EVER checking out that product. F Grammarly and ClickUp etc. I've never tried those products but I have disgust for them thanks to their ads.

One would assume so. How do you think Google, Meta, etc make all their money?

Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#92

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Why are you subjecting yourself to that instead of downloading Firefox + uBlock origin? See the headline of this article for Exhibit (I've actually run out of letters in the alphabet) why adblocking is a moral imperative.

As much I love a good old "Why don't you just ..." response that terrifically misses the point - in this particular case I was watching YouTube through their Apple TV app. Now, there may be another "why don't you just ..." or "well, actually ..." response you have queued up, maybe some ramblings about a pi hole, or some anti-Apple hate, or some other solutioneering. Go ahead, tell me. But it is the structure of incen…

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Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#93

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Use an adblocker? That's what I do and why I don't even know what brooklinen is.

The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)

Try firefox, as chrome puts restrictions on what adblockers can do

Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#95
We need strict liability on this front. Google is complicit. No newspaper or equivalent publication in the days before web ads would allow ads that are down at the level of scam that seemingly make up the modus operandi of Google today (and even the ads back then that did bend the truth a bit, overpromised, or showed products that didn't actually have any legitimate use, shouldn't really have been legal back then either. They just weren't big enough of a problem to worry about).

Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#97

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Use an adblocker? That's what I do and why I don't even know what brooklinen is.

abp in firefox doesn't really remove them. I've seen and reported multiple scummy popup-like looking ads like tfn and saw it again for weeks...

ABP as in adblock plus?

Don't use that. Use Ublock Origin.

Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

#98

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Use an adblocker? That's what I do and why I don't even know what brooklinen is.

abp in firefox doesn't really remove them. I've seen and reported multiple scummy popup-like looking ads like tfn and saw it again for weeks...

Use ublock origin rather than ABP. ABP was dead the moment they sold out to "responsible" ads.
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