Google To Allow Double Serving Ads.
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The real group getting screwed here are advertisers
On no the parasite funding this whole circus getting screwed over by a mega corp...
Fuk 'em, they deserve each other.
Deny the Parasite profit
The people paying for content are the parasites?
I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.
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The people paying for content are the parasites?
I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.
People attempting to inject their shit corporate propaganda into my daily life is in fact a parasite... That I deny engagement daily!
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People attempting to inject their shit corporate propaganda into my daily life is in fact a parasite... That I deny engagement daily!
Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.
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Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their 'experimentations'. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they would from honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.
The number goes up if you know what I mean.
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Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.
Who owns teevee shows and movies?
Who owns the music?
Who owns the shit posting on here?
Are these "Creatives" in the room with us right now dear?
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Who owns teevee shows and movies?
Who owns the music?
Who owns the shit posting on here?
Are these "Creatives" in the room with us right now dear?
Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.
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Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.
I am not following which artists I am ripping off.
Vast majority of "content" is owned by mega corporations
How am I "hurting" the "artist"?
They already got paid and mega corp owns the IP. You are not making sense here from property law perspective.
If anyone is getting hurt it is the content owner ie perosn who hold the title to property. I am literally do my thing to ensure that corpo never gets paid for this content.
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Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
Books don't have ads.
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Honestly, at this point the dealbreaking enshittification stuff I bump into is mostly subscription requests and paywalls from the sites themselves. Which, fair enough, people need to get paid and I don't have a particularly good answer to give them about how. I am not watching ads on purpose as a support gesture, though.
Protip: you can also block a lot of those by enabling some "annoyances" blocklists in uBlocks settings.
And while you're there, take a look at all the other blocklists they don't enable by default. You might find something useful to you.
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Books don't have ads.
Every 100th page, there will be a small, "unobtrusive" ad near the bottom of the page. Just to cover rising publishing/paper costs. Then it will be every 50th page, 25th page. Then the ad will get bigger, little by little, until a full page advert is shown every few pages.
Just reinvented a magazine, I know but I could see it happening. The fact that we now have ads showing up in cars at red lights...
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I love SmartTube. Every time someone comes over and they want to play something via YouTube, they're like: "holy fuck, no ads? skipping straight to music part? this is divine technology"
Right! Why is an adblocker such a foreign concept to the bulk of humanity.
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No advertising platform has any incentive to prevent bot traffic; they actively profit from 'failing' to prevent it.
That’s not true
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Every 100th page, there will be a small, "unobtrusive" ad near the bottom of the page. Just to cover rising publishing/paper costs. Then it will be every 50th page, 25th page. Then the ad will get bigger, little by little, until a full page advert is shown every few pages.
Just reinvented a magazine, I know but I could see it happening. The fact that we now have ads showing up in cars at red lights...
You need to burn old books first. Also old CD, DVD, BlueRay movies don't have ads. There are so many movies produced you won't be able to see all of them if you start right after born and keep tv on 24/7 for the rest of your days. Don't get me started about old books and old music. People could literally stop buying those things and they will be fine.
Most of us are just adicted to marketing, news and more things that literally don't matter because you have no power to change those things. We're just animals after all, we eat meat so we're predator, we like to follow the lead.
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Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
Yo, I heard you like ads so we put ads in your ads.
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You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.
We have
- a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
- ruining our planet's climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
- ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
- destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
- keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
- destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,...
Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.
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Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
Yay, now the world’s worst profiling service can show the same completely irrelevant add twice!
If you’re a business and using Google to serve targeted ads, think twice. Their targeting is absolutely horse-shit mumbojumbo. They’re wasting your money, their money, and my time by consistently serving the least-relevant, no-fucking-chance-I’d-click-on-that ads.
You’d be better off paying local pigeons for investing advice.
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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be designed to work without an account.
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Yeah, it's not worth it. Maybe sometime I'll get something like pihole set up so YouTube is usable on my TV, but for now, I just plug in a laptop w/ proper ad block.
I'd totally pay for YT if it was reasonable for my usage. But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn't worth it for me.
I'd totally pay for YT...But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn't worth it for me.
I'd pay for it if their first-party experience wasn't so horrific and gave me any control over my feed.
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Books don't have ads.
Amazon says "hold my beer"
