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Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by hammock »

elorant wrote: post #55
spiderfarmer wrote: post #9

According to their terms, Google can cancel any account at any time without having to offer an explanation. They also have a history of not replying to publisher problems at all. The whole 'Official' Adsense forum is run by volunteers and it's near impossible to speak to a real person. Even if they are hacked and thousands of accounts are cancelled I don't think Google will respond. I would so, so love to see a big p…

The only one who could run an AdSense alternative is Facebook. I'd love to see them going that way but I seriously doubt they'd bother. There's too much friction to support such a platform and with ad blockers gaining traction it might become unsustainable pretty soon.

Not strictly true. There are a number of ad network competitors with similar data on users that we've never heard of. Conversant is one of the largest, with sizable inventory on the web and in apps.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by worg »

adsense_is_crap wrote: post #68
ggggtez wrote: post #44

I think it's pretty clear this is not a hack. Please reserve your need to argue about ad block, which is way off topic and irrelevant...

The apathy of you, and most other users is as shocking to me as the the greed that is undermining our privacy. To them, our data which constitutes your identity, is a commodity. Unless we confront this status-quo that is the greed that would reduce you to a fucking "click impression"s your privacy, dignity and experience will be dominated by a culture of selling to you. All this to say, @gggtex, that Adsense and its…

Disclaimer: I block ads, I don't run any ad on any place whatsoever, I think we users must be in control of our data. That said, @ggggtez point is really relevant, this thread is about technical difficulties on adsense (maybe a hack, although I don't think so) so this is not the place to bring our ad political views, let's keep the talk on topic.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by lmz »

rincebrain wrote: post #93
illumin8 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Android lets websites vibrate your phone and launch the Play store without permission? That's insane. This is one of the reasons I will never have an android phone.

There's an HTML5 API for vibrating devices, including phones; this isn't necessarily an Android-specific problem, and there are legitimate reasons for browser content to use features like vibration. (It isn't implemented in Safari, but it apparently works in other browsers on iDevices.) The Play store launching without permission I haven't seen, so I can't guess at.

Launching the play store just uses a custom url that is handled by the play store app. See: https://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/promote/linki...

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by SN76477 »

ungzd wrote: post #81
elorant wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only one who could run an AdSense alternative is Facebook. I'd love to see them going that way but I seriously doubt they'd bother. There's too much friction to support such a platform and with ad blockers gaining traction it might become unsustainable pretty soon.

Facebook is against web outside Facebook.

Yep, Facebook do not want you on the internet, they want you on Facebook.

It is atrocious.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by pg_is_a_butt »

eknkc wrote: post #54
oneloop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't people like Appnexus and Openx alternatives? What am I missing?

As far as I can tell, all alternatives have either lower revenues or the shittiest ads ever.

As far as i can tell, you could create your own ad platform and procure your own advertisers with quality ads.

you are all the shittiest.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by noxToken »

Sir_Substance wrote: post #33
t0pz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…

>First of all, adblock has destroyed a significant number of small bloggers, content-writers, and other publishers, as especially those were struggling to stay above water. People used to do that for free because they cared about the content they were writing, rather than because it was making their daily bread. I distinctly remember the quality of writing during this time being much higher than it is today.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head.

Written content was either managed by major news outlets or by hobbyists. I can still remember reading many blogs in 2009/2010 by hobbyist who just wanted to spread their experience with the hobby or craft. Most had no advertising. Those that did had the small, occasional unobtrusive banner ad. All of the links to follow were to other blogs by those who proved to the writer that their blogs were topical and without cruft.

Then the paid blogging boom took off. People realized they could churn out crap most of the time with the occasional heavy hitter[0]. Keep readers coming back to a mediocre blog plastered in ads for a minimal amount of effort and get paid.

Note: This isn't a shot at Atwood. I'm agreeing with him.

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-achieve-ultimate-blog-s...

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by gruez »

illumin8 wrote: post #72
zzleeper wrote: post #52

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On my phone, I switched from Chrome to Firefox because many websites had ads that used the phone vibrator, others redirected to the play store, etc. It's insane and you can't disable it from Chrome...

What? Android lets websites vibrate your phone and launch the Play store without permission? That's insane. This is one of the reasons I will never have an android phone.

You do realize that happens on iOS devices as well right? Open any iTunes/appstore link and it gets opens in the respective native app

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by gruez »

t0pz wrote: post #59
mirimir wrote: post #39

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So far, one can still uncheck the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" box in Filter Preferences.

aside from the fact that less than 2% of users actually do this, it is still quite arbitrary how they determine intrusive and non-intrusive. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt to improve on this. But the amount of trust given to Adblock Plus is ridiculous. They are a money-grubbing extortionist company that is in no way improving the advertising landscape at the moment. They are just taking full advantage of the…

>aside from the fact that less than 2% of users actually do this

Source?

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by oneloop »

chewxy wrote: post #51
oneloop wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't people like Appnexus and Openx alternatives? What am I missing?

Appnexus is a RTB platform and a DSP (and a whole lot of other things they do). OpenX is/was an exchange and is generally the #1 place for buying/selling dodgy af traffic. Neither does what Adsense does per se. What Adsense does is it reads the content of the page, and loads relevant ads from from its database of ads (things people put in adwords) and from GDN (also things people put in AdWords, and DBM, only they're…

I refuse to believe that NO ONE ELSE out there does the "read page in order to target ad" thing.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

t0pz wrote: post #20
jasonwen wrote: post #17

This year we will stop using AdSense altogether. No support at all and the payouts have been declining every year. With the increase of ad blockers, even less encouraging to use ads in general. Sometimes I wonder, are ads as we know it, dead? Everyone hates it, has real usability impact and security risks. Didnt get the email though...

Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…

The problem is typical ads like Google Adwords are dead. Not in terms of usage maybe but it's coming. Social and native advertising is the bigger game now. Facebook and Instagram advertising brings in a better ROI than Google Adwords from every person I've talked to who buys ads.

Everything I read on the internet about advertising it's massively swinging to social. So either my anecdotes suck and I'm reading terrible articles or there is something to it and I believe there is (especially SnapChat is HUGE with it but you have to do content production not just pay for a shitty ad).

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