seasonone@opidea.xyz to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoGoogle engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossiblestackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1180arrow-down1external-linkGoogle engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossiblestackdiary.comseasonone@opidea.xyz to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareMeshPotato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoLouis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect. https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas In short: it’s fake views. That’s were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn’t discourage advertisers since they don’t pay for unviewed ads.
Louis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect.
https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas
In short: it’s fake views. That’s were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn’t discourage advertisers since they don’t pay for unviewed ads.