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    Posted: 15 Feb 2018 at 2:11am
Wonder what this will mean in the long run....

Quote Google’s Big Ad-Blocking Update Comes to Chrome Tomorrow: Here’s What We Know

It’s been in the works for nearly a year and Google’s great ad-pocalypse is now upon us. On Thursday, the Chrome browser will begin to automatically filter out ads that don’t meet certain quality standards. Your browsing experience is about to change a little bit. Here’s what you need to know.

In April of last year, the news first broke that Google planned to integrate some form of ad-blocking into its browser that would be on by default. Since then we’ve seen a gradual rollout of the feature, beginning with the ability to mute autoplay videos with sound on the sites of your choosing. Now, Google going all-in with a set of criteria for what ads will be kosher in Chrome.

Along with its fellow ad giant Facebook, Google is a member of the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group that has performed research on what forms of web advertising annoys people the most. It’s created a list of the 12 types of web experiences that should ideally be avoided by advertisers. Now Google is going to enforce that list with Chrome, which is used by over half of all people accessing the web with a browser.

On Wednesday, the company published a blog post detailing how the system will work. Initially, Google will take a sample of various pages on a specific domain and analyze whether that page is serving any of the offending ad categories. It’ll be given a score of “Passing, Warning, or Failing.” Sites that don’t manage to get a passing grade will be notified by Google and they can review an ad experience report for details on what needs to change. If a site ignores multiple warnings, its ads will be blocked by default after 30 days.

If a user visits a site that’s being filtered by Chrome, they’ll see a message in the address bar that gives them the option to still allow ads—on mobile, users will see a pop-up at the bottom of the screen that will give them the same option. Yes, pop-up ads are blocked, and Google will be informing you with a pop-up notification.

There’s plenty of reason to celebrate this change. The internet is getting harder to navigate, and more annoying with advertisers demanding more obtrusive experiences every day. Google claims that since it kicked off this initiative, “42% of sites which were failing the Better Ads Standards have resolved their issues and are now passing.” So it seems that a lot of site owners got the message before it could even become a problem.

There’s also cause to be skeptical of Google’s altruistic goals. Sure, it’s telling advertisers not to be evil, but it’s also hoping that a better experience will mean fewer people feel the urge to download a third-party ad blocker. That’s good for the internet, which is largely funded by ads. But it’s particularly good for Google, which controls around 42 percent of the US digital ad market and 75.8 percent of the search ad market, according to research from eMarketer. It wouldn’t be so great if Google, with all its power, decided to follow in the footsteps of services like Adblock Plus, which offers companies the opportunity to pay their way onto an acceptable ads list. Representatives for Google have assured us on multiple occasions that the company isn’t offering any kind of paid whitelisting now, and isn’t planning to do so. But things could change.

For now, enjoy the better web before Google fully consumes it all and does whatever it wants.


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Censored Google.  They are one of the biggest offenders.  Put in a search term, and you get slammed with sites claiming to sell you the thing you are seeking information on because the gooogle engine directs the search terms to advertisers' sites, giving them priority over the actually relevant sites you are looking for, e.g. searching for 'spectrum frequencies' gets you ad links like "Save up to 75% on spectrum frequencies at Target!"
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Yeah, and it's always Target, too.

The stupid Target link appears for everything, no matter whether Target sells it or not.

Look for a manifold gasket for a '96 Chevy and you'll get a link that says "Save up to 75% on manifold gaskets at Target!".
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Feb 2018 at 2:08pm
Huh, just as i was reading the previous post, a Target ad just came on the TV!
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What's the deal with those annoying scary popups that say your phone/computer is infected or that it will cause your battery to discharge etc. contact....It shows a mechanical looking thing that looks like Rosy the maid from the Jetsons. Lets see how fast these cancers are eradicated. Image result for Intrusive scary pop ups that say your device is infectedI imagine some Nigerian or Eastern European punks getting off on flim flaming and ripping us off.
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Originally posted by zippyjet zippyjet wrote:


What's the deal with those annoying scary popups that say your phone/computer is infected or that it will cause your battery to discharge etc. contact....It shows a mechanical looking thing that looks like Rosy the maid from the Jetsons. Lets see how fast these cancers are eradicated. Image result for Intrusive scary pop ups that say your device is infectedI imagine some Nigerian or Eastern European punks getting off on flim flaming and ripping us off.


I hate when those things pop up too. I remember going on Google to check if those things are legitimate and I found a website warning people that these pop ups are scams.

A person on that website said something like, "I fell for this scam on my home computer and it gave me a virus and made my computer crash instead of helping it. I fell for the scam again on my cellphone and actually pressed " Click to install, " and my anti virus software on my phone caught on to the scam immediately and rejected the virus scam. You would think I would have learned my lesson from falling for the same scam that caused my home computer to crash, but no. If if weren't for my anti virus software on my phone the scam would have crashed my cellphone too. I can't believe I fell for the same scam twice."
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Donathan, don't feel bad. Several years ago on my old laptop, I got some kind of popup and fell for it. Instead of a virus, I called the numbed and of course foreigners said all will be well. $300 some bucks later, found out it was a rip-off. The foreign teckies installed software that were free trial versions. Co?puter was faster 4 a couple of days. The free sw were trial versions. Long story short, I just stuck with Dell tech support and all was well. Periodically, saud foreign flim flam men call. I ignore the calls and reported them.
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I have 2 adblockers, a pop-up blocker, a browser antivirus that prevents redirecting, a personal firewall, a network firewall, & a real-time antivirus. I haven't gotten a virus since Windows 98.
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