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Well, that is deception unless you are honest with users. In many countries illegal, and as scummy, if not more, than your taboola ads.
by angry-hacker 10y ago
Well, that is deception unless you are honest with users. In many countries illegal, and as scummy, if not more, than your taboola ads.
- omginternets 10y ago> if not more Honestly I'm not sure it is. Sure, it's deceptive, but he's not serving ads that annoy, distract and often serve as a vector for malware. It's not clear (to me) that it's worse than traditional web advertising, which tends to be deceptive, illegal, scummy and annoying, dangerous and distracting. And again, the trick with native advertising is to provide valuable content for the users, otherwise it's just crap that nobody will read. I don't know if the poster in question is actually doing this, but if he is, I wouldn't be so quick to write it off as scummy; bear in mind that oftentimes such pieces are identified as "sponsored content".
- freehunter 10y agoI took the concept directly from Cult Of Mac, so I have a page detailing how I run sponsored posts, and every sponsored post says "Sponsored by Company X" in italics at the top of the post. I reject your assertion of "my taboola ads". I don't run any kind of third party ad scripts. All my sponsored content is written by me and labeled as such. And I immediately turn down any ad content I myself would not want to see (I run adblockers, too), since it wouldn't provide any value to my readers.