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Each AdSense advertiser can turn off specific channels for their sites including 'health and wellness' (weight loss) and 'dating' (scam chat sites). Unfortunat
by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Each AdSense advertiser can turn off specific channels for their sites including 'health and wellness' (weight loss) and 'dating' (scam chat sites). Unfortunately, there are baddies in nearly every category. The software category, for instance, which is the majority of our income, is a hotbed of spyware/adware vendors. And blocking them is nearly impossible since Google doesn't really care to know. So you're left manually determining domains yourself and blocking them. But it's just wack-a-mole as they create new domains when enough sites block them.
This isn't too surprising considering that the top link for a Google search for Firefox is a Google ad for an advertiser that will deliver Firefox via a downloader along with 8 different spyware/adware apps. My mom made that mistake last weekend. We would up reimaging her computer.
- troels 13y agoJust a thought: Couldn't advertisers collaborate on maintaining a blocklist, just like users do with adblockers? Does it already exist?
- JohnTHaller 13y agoI've considered it, but you'd have to manually update your domains list and you're limited to only 500 total.
- cabalamat 13y ago> the top link for a Google search for Firefox is a Google ad for an advertiser that will deliver Firefox via a downloader along with 8 different spyware/adware apps Is it? I get http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
- JohnTHaller 13y agoIt is here: http://imgur.com/gallery/NeSbeBM http://imgur.com/gallery/NeSbeBM