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Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by acjacobson »

yreg wrote: post #105
alwaysrunning wrote: post #49

Honestly, who here sees ads? My son owns a marketing firm and anytime I see his display it's shocking to me how different it looks than mine.

I see ads when watching YouTube on my TV, since I have been too lazy to set up a pi hole so far. To be honest, I don't even mind it that much. At least I have some contact with what's going on out there in the ad space. But I watch 90+% of YT videos on other devices, not the TV.

Just FYI - Pihole won't block video ads on Youtube on your TV because it is limited to DNS blocking. Youtube is structured such that blocking the necessary domains would block all of Youtube.

Re: Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by Gud »

20after4 wrote: post #79
jrockway wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you deserve any downvotes, but there is also somewhat of a tragedy of the commons effect at play. I hear people Google "Facebook" to find the Facebook login page. No doubt, Facebook has ads for that search so that people click the right link. This ends up being expensive; people should have just clicked their bookmark, but don't really understand URLs, so there is just a tax on big companies to have tha…

Firefox, not Chrome, dethroned IE. It was just short lived because very soon after, Google hired half the Firefox team away from Mozilla and created Chrome.

That’s not really why people switched to Chrome. Google started to push Chrome aggressively on Google.com.

Re: Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by artursapek »

Terretta wrote: post #89
artursapek wrote: post #14

Cigarette executive: "your lungs are actually worse off without cigs"

Cigarette Exec "Starter Pack": 1. Lung Inflammation: Nicotine in cigarettes may have anti-inflammatory effects, potentially aiding conditions like COPD or asthma. 2. Stress Relief: Smoking can provide temporary relief from stress-induced shortness of breath. 3. Pollutant Resilience: Constant exposure to cigarette pollutants might hypothetically increase lung resilience to other environmental toxins. 4. Parkinson's Di…

Actually as an occassional tobacco enjoyer (pipe, cigars) some of this is actually true lol

Re: Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by chankstein38 »

UltimateEdge wrote: post #91
chankstein38 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I think affects this, aside from Google just being trash now, is the age of content available. I can't tell you how many times I google for a solution while writing some code and find irrelevant crap from 2013 or something. Don't get me wrong, it's good those things are available to be searched still but I don't routinely need 10 year old data. It would be nice if they'd archive things older than a certain…

For these things you can often just append something like "after:2020" to see current results. (I am not sure if you were aware.)

I wasn't, I appreciate that!

Re: Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by CaptainFever »

adamsvystun wrote: post #43

Does anyone have the context in which this was said? The question that was asked?

My thoughts too. This just seems like such a ridiculous thing that it must be out of context. Perhaps it's about in comparison to paywalls?

Re: Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

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Post by 20after4 »

Gud wrote: post #112
20after4 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox, not Chrome, dethroned IE. It was just short lived because very soon after, Google hired half the Firefox team away from Mozilla and created Chrome.

That’s not really why people switched to Chrome. Google started to push Chrome aggressively on Google.com.

Yes this is also true. I was pointing out that people switched to Firefox before they switched to Chrome. Chrome didn't even exist for quite some time after Firefox was already thriving and putting a serious dent in IE's dominance.
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