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Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick. Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst. T
by bartread 2mo ago
Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick.
Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst.
The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads.
So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense?
The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.
- inigyou 2mo agoProgrammers tend to think rules are actually rules, because if you don't follow the rules on a computer then it won't work. But rules in politics and capitalism are primarily a manipulation technique. They state as a fact what they want you to think is fact, not what is actually a fact.