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Ultimately the money comes from a mark further down the line. For example some poor sucker desperate to fix their health problem spends hundreds on a flakey hig
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Ultimately the money comes from a mark further down the line. For example some poor sucker desperate to fix their health problem spends hundreds on a flakey high margin product, be it physical or digital.
Sure there are legit ads too but I'd guess the greyhat stuff will give higher EPC.
Google ads takes the long term view and doesn't tolerate shit like that. They are very strict and would rather not take that money and destroy their brand. Result? People still use Google to search for stuff.
- prawn 10y ago"Google ads takes the long term view and doesn't tolerate shit like that. They are very strict and would rather not take that money and destroy their brand. Result? People still use Google to search for stuff." Are you sure? I've seen loads and loads of some of the trashiest ads through Google's ad network.
- manicdee 10y agoAnd at least Google iAds give you the tiny little logo in the corner for you to click so you can report the ad that tries very hard to look like a download button :(
- reitanqild 10y agoOnly they never seem to quite get it: Google: here is x dating site, Me: click, mark as irrelevant. Google: here is y dating site Me: irrelevant Google: z dating site? Me: nope Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer? <reaches for my adblocker>
- dc_gregory 10y agoUnless happily married SW engineers with your search history whom mark dating sites as irrelevant are great for dating site conversions.
- Buge 10y agoYou can change the google settings to specifically give you ads about topics you like https://www.google.com/settings/ads https://www.google.com/settings/ads
- eps 10y agoAh, the "Choose your Vaselin flavor" option.
- reitanqild 10y agoBeen there, done that. Somehow Google think dating sites fall under auto repair, gardening, computer hardware or software or a few other categories I am actually interested in. Or more likely IMO: they don't care.
- nfoz 10y agoI bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.
- chris_wot 10y agoThey're extracting right till the moment they aren't - ever again.
- prawn 10y agoI think they just have a weak pool of ads to serve. I routinely mark Twitter ads as of no interest to me, and still get virtually nothing I would ever have interest in.
- eps 10y agoThe problem with that button is that whenever the ad slips past through an adblocker people like myself will click it regardless of what the ad is showing and report it.
- BurningFrog 10y agoPeople definitely still use Google to search for stuff!