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Uh no, Google is an advertising company. You know the terrible full page creepy ads taking over mobile that make the internet almost unusable and you can't bloc

Uh no, Google is an advertising company. You know the terrible full page creepy ads taking over mobile that make the internet almost unusable and you can't block? Google is responsible for that. With Google Jobs you're the product to be sold. Only this time it's not annoying ad's, they're offering your employment for sale, your life.

halflings 9y ago
Google is doing all the opposite: punishing all websites using pop-up or full-page ads in search results. https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-punish-pop-ups-interstitial-ads https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-pu...
- throwasehasdwi 9y ago
  They're directly the reason that Chrome Mobile doesn't support extensions, the reason you have to put up with these ads. Oh and a few years ago they banned ad blockers from the app store https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-removed-from-google-play-store https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-remove... So every time you see a shitty horrible ad on mobile, the reason you have to watch it is 100% Google.
  - kileywm 9y ago
    Extensions/add-ons were the #1 reason I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my mobile device. It supports uBlock Origin & others. It's worth a try if you haven't done so lately.
    - LiquidFlux 9y ago
      Chrome still supports uBlock Origin, the Chrome Store doesn't.
      - icebraining 9y ago
        Chrome on your mobile device?
      - Ajedi32 9y ago
        Huh? Yes it does: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... I believe you mean Android and the Play Store, not Chrome and the Chrome Store.
  - ensiferum 9y ago
    Install ad block browser
- tomascot 9y ago
  Quite the opposite. If you have a site with Adsense and a good chunk of mobile trafic they recommend you to install ads for mobiles and there are options to show a banner fixed to the bottom of the screen and another to display an ad that takes all the screen. Google is really contradictory in that regard if you see what they recommend for adsense editor and what they said in the quality guidelines for search.
euyyn 9y ago
As if with recruiters you're not the product to be sold.
- throwasehasdwi 9y ago
  Recruiters only know what I tell them. Google knows almost everything about me.
  - komali2 9y ago
    lol, recruiters have access to google. EDIT: To clarify, when I was a recruiter, we could build profiles on candidates, buy information on candidates, etc. It was pretty trivially easy to get all the relevant info from linkedin alone. My thought is, why not want that? It'd save me wasting a candidate's time if I could glance through his linkedin and see he/she wasn't a good fit. Because if you had a private profile, 80% of the time I'd be able to pull your phone number from a resume you'd posted somewhere (that my company paid pennies to have access to) and give you a call, just to find out real quick if you're a good fit or not.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      Google doesn't tell you what they know about me, just what the rest of the internet knows and chooses to publicize about me. Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile, and I bet that's true of a lot of others.
      - komali2 9y ago
        >Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile. Why is that? What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? I'm mildly surprised, because I can't think of anything google knows about me that would prevent me from being hired. The only thing is maybe my porn history, which is all in incognito mode anyway, and really not even that shocking in terms of content.
aphextron 9y ago
Ultimately we have to accept some form of centralized control to reap the benefits of this technology at scale. Would you rather be using an AltaVista job search?

halflings 9y ago

Google is doing all the opposite: punishing all websites using pop-up or full-page ads in search results. https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-punish-pop-ups-interstitial-ads https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-pu...

throwasehasdwi 9y ago
They're directly the reason that Chrome Mobile doesn't support extensions, the reason you have to put up with these ads. Oh and a few years ago they banned ad blockers from the app store https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-removed-from-google-play-store https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-remove... So every time you see a shitty horrible ad on mobile, the reason you have to watch it is 100% Google.
- kileywm 9y ago
  Extensions/add-ons were the #1 reason I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my mobile device. It supports uBlock Origin & others. It's worth a try if you haven't done so lately.
  - LiquidFlux 9y ago
    Chrome still supports uBlock Origin, the Chrome Store doesn't.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      Chrome on your mobile device?
    - Ajedi32 9y ago
      Huh? Yes it does: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... I believe you mean Android and the Play Store, not Chrome and the Chrome Store.
- ensiferum 9y ago
  Install ad block browser
tomascot 9y ago
Quite the opposite. If you have a site with Adsense and a good chunk of mobile trafic they recommend you to install ads for mobiles and there are options to show a banner fixed to the bottom of the screen and another to display an ad that takes all the screen. Google is really contradictory in that regard if you see what they recommend for adsense editor and what they said in the quality guidelines for search.

euyyn 9y ago

As if with recruiters you're not the product to be sold.

throwasehasdwi 9y ago
Recruiters only know what I tell them. Google knows almost everything about me.
- komali2 9y ago
  lol, recruiters have access to google. EDIT: To clarify, when I was a recruiter, we could build profiles on candidates, buy information on candidates, etc. It was pretty trivially easy to get all the relevant info from linkedin alone. My thought is, why not want that? It'd save me wasting a candidate's time if I could glance through his linkedin and see he/she wasn't a good fit. Because if you had a private profile, 80% of the time I'd be able to pull your phone number from a resume you'd posted somewhere (that my company paid pennies to have access to) and give you a call, just to find out real quick if you're a good fit or not.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Google doesn't tell you what they know about me, just what the rest of the internet knows and chooses to publicize about me. Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile, and I bet that's true of a lot of others.
    - komali2 9y ago
      >Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile. Why is that? What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? I'm mildly surprised, because I can't think of anything google knows about me that would prevent me from being hired. The only thing is maybe my porn history, which is all in incognito mode anyway, and really not even that shocking in terms of content.

aphextron 9y ago

Ultimately we have to accept some form of centralized control to reap the benefits of this technology at scale. Would you rather be using an AltaVista job search?