thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question: why do we put up with this as readers?
Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#12Wow, roughly 50% content, 50% ads.
Who controls this ratio? Is it configurable? I.e. could OP choose minimal ads and reduced monetization? Or does everyone always get the firehose?
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#13“a link to what the site looked like last week, before Google made me make it worse on purpose to make money.” Sounds like you sold out. You should own up to your agency in the matter. They made me make it worse so I could make more money - it’s like you think you are under unique pressure to pay bills, thus excusing you, but everyone else in the world shouldn’t be excused.
I think the point is that Google is creating an incentive to have useless content on your website if you want to show ads on it.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#14It happened to me too, with my simple site for generating acrostic poems [0].
It would only show the poems create. I tried Adsense, was rejected for lack of content (probably, because they are mysterious about the reason they reject you). Then I tried adding lists of words starting with the letters used as initials for the acrostics. Rejected again.
Then I gave up, and decided to use affiliate links.
[0] www.acrostic.ai
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#15thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question: why do we put up with this as readers?
Safari has ad blockers now too
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#16Maybe it's time for a market cap maximum. If your market cap exceeds the median GDP of all African countries, you get broken up. No more borg controlling the internet. This should help prevent vertical consolidation. Truly corporate death penalty any children of breakups who collude (full loss to equity, half loss to creditors, assets auction to public).
Google shouldn't exist at its scale, nor should Apple, Microsoft, nVidia, ...
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#17I ran into this as well about 2 years ago. I thought it’d be cool to create a site that’d algorithmically estimate the snowpack for mountains based on observations and elevation. It was a very rough estimate, but still better than using 1 square mile observations, which obviously could vary by 10k+ feet of elevation. When I tried putting a few Google Ads on it to pay the hosting costs, it rejected it until I added lo…
I wonder if you could DIY your own ads via an amazon affiliate account. I've used one in the past for actual product reviews, but now I'm wondering if you could hack it in in some way.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#18Maybe it's time for a market cap maximum. If your market cap exceeds the median GDP of all African countries, you get broken up. No more borg controlling the internet. This should help prevent vertical consolidation. Truly corporate death penalty any children of breakups who collude (full loss to equity, half loss to creditors, assets auction to public). Google shouldn't exist at its scale, nor should Apple, Microsof…
Yes, 100%. It would be better for the economy, the workers, and the users.
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Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#20Maybe it's time for a market cap maximum. If your market cap exceeds the median GDP of all African countries, you get broken up. No more borg controlling the internet. This should help prevent vertical consolidation. Truly corporate death penalty any children of breakups who collude (full loss to equity, half loss to creditors, assets auction to public). Google shouldn't exist at its scale, nor should Apple, Microsof…
I assume they would just pull some shenanigans to stay under the cap.