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As an Adsense publisher, I noticed they enabled ‘Auto ads’ on every website, automatically. What this does is it plasters 15 ads in a long web page, it adds int
by spiderfarmer 7y ago
As an Adsense publisher, I noticed they enabled ‘Auto ads’ on every website, automatically. What this does is it plasters 15 ads in a long web page, it adds interstitials to mobile page and it just fucking ruins your websites UX. It’s enabled on millions of websites now. It’s like Google is desperate to make more money.
I can disable it, for now. I won’t be surprised if at some point in the future, they make it the standard and only behavior.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago“It’s like Google is desperate to make more money.” It’s getting exponentially harder to achieve their expected growth rates. They haven’t managed to find another significant revenue source beside ads so they have to squeeze everything out of that. Kind of sad that all the super smart people there still haven’t come up with any product they can sell with enough revenue besides ads.
- BurningFrog 7y agoGoogle search+ads are a once in a generation in the world phenomenon. It's not at all strange they can't just pop out a few more of those.
- zaroth 7y agoThose interstitials are horrific. And they are on so many sites now. Google deserves as much condemnation for introducing those as it does for the recent redesign. I think most people don’t realize it’s Google’s fault and blame the sites. Thank you the comment. It explains so much of how the Internet has gotten markedly worse in the last couple months. These “auto” AdWords are totally overwhelming and awful.
- spiderfarmer 7y ago> I think most people don’t realize it’s Google’s fault and blame the sites. Absolutely. That's how I noticed what 'Auto Ads' really did. People thought my site was infected by malware and contacted me with screenshots.