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I was reminded today of the kind of tricky things google gets up to when I went to the download page for "Win32 Disk Imager" on Softpedia (as linked to by the R

by damian2000 14y ago

I was reminded today of the kind of tricky things google gets up to when I went to the download page for "Win32 Disk Imager" on Softpedia (as linked to by the Raspberry Pi's Download page). http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Win32-Disk-Imager.shtml http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burnin... Check it out for yourself. You see that big, prominant "Download Now" button - that's an ad served by googleadservices.com. I don't know how they get away with crap like this, it surely must be against their own ad policy.

nostrademons 14y ago
It is against policy: http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1346295#Encouraging_accidental_clicks http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... I'll ping folks internally. If you look at the button with Developer Tools, it's one single giant image that's an ad for Download Manager. The advertiser stuck a Download button on it and is presumably running ads on sites where you download things.