#online-ads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #online-ads, aggregated by home.social.
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FYI: Google drops AdSense vignette back button trigger ahead of spam deadline: Google removes the back button trigger for AdSense vignette ads on June 15, 2026, resolving a direct conflict between its ad product and its spam policies. https://ppc.land/google-drops-adsense-vignette-back-button-trigger-ahead-of-spam-deadline/ #Google #AdSense #DigitalMarketing #OnlineAds #Advertising
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FYI: Google Shopping tab now mixes ads into free listing grids: Google is now inserting sponsored ads into the free listing grid in the Shopping tab, completing a pattern that started in AI Mode and main search results. https://ppc.land/google-shopping-tab-now-mixes-ads-into-free-listing-grids/ #GoogleShopping #OnlineAds #DigitalMarketing #Ecommerce #PPCMarketing
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FYI: Brave blocks your ads and sells its own - and it's working: Brave browser grew from 80M to 109M monthly active users while selling its own ads after blocking publishers' - Jean-Paul Schmetz explains the model in detail. https://ppc.land/brave-blocks-your-ads-and-sells-its-own-and-its-working/ #BraveBrowser #AdBlocking #DigitalMarketing #PrivacyProtection #OnlineAds
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Brave blocks your ads and sells its own - and it's working: Brave browser grew from 80M to 109M monthly active users while selling its own ads after blocking publishers' - Jean-Paul Schmetz explains the model in detail. https://ppc.land/brave-blocks-your-ads-and-sells-its-own-and-its-working/ #BraveBrowser #AdBlocking #DigitalMarketing #PrivacyFirst #OnlineAds
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85% of Americans now recognize the AdChoices icon, DAA survey finds: A new DAA survey finds 85% of Americans recognize the AdChoices icon - a record high - while 88% expect interest-based ads and 87% back watchdog oversight. https://ppc.land/85-of-americans-now-recognize-the-adchoices-icon-daa-survey-finds/ #AdChoices #DigitalMarketing #Privacy #OnlineAds #InterestBasedAds
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🚀 No Ads, No Problem! 🚀 Meet the Brave Hero Who Sacrifices Precious Time to Wage a Never-Ending War Against the Evil Forces of Online Ads! Spoiler Alert: He's the Same Guy Who'll Tell You to Subscribe to Everything You Like to Keep the Internet Alive. 🙄
https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/ #BraveHero #OnlineAds #InternetFreedom #AdBlocker #SubscribeToContent #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Ah yes, another groundbreaking revelation that your browser isn't a secret diary but more like a neon sign for advertisers. But don't worry, just install 37 plugins, disable JavaScript, and wrap your computer in tin foil. Problem solved! 🙄🔍
https://neberej.github.io/exposedbydefault/ #browserprivacy #onlineads #techhumor #digitalsecurity #internettips #HackerNews #ngated -
At a #Mozilla event in #Brussels this morning about "#privacy-first online #advertising". I am _very_ curious where this weirdest of things Mozilla does is going. 🤔
Speakers: Petra Wikström, policy person at #Schibsted, @rvaneijk, @eff's Svea Windwehr and Mozilla's own Martin Thompson.
#onlineads #SurveillanceAdvertising #TrackingFreeAds #gdpr #dataprotection
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AdNauseam: Clicking ads so you don't have to
#HackerNews #AdNauseam #AdBlocking #DigitalPrivacy #TechInnovation #OnlineAds
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How to avoid #onlineads, #emails accidentally spoiling a #holiday #surprise: Video
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As a late Boomer, I am pretty desensitized to ads, having been involuntarily exposed to them my whole life. Pretty much all media has been unskippable ads for most of my life. So I do really appreciate skippable ads and my ad blocker here online.
I still run into many sites that still insist that I turn off my adblocker to see their content.
To the people who run those sites, I say this:
1. In most cases I simply assume your content is not actually good enough for me to bother. I'll just close the tab. Saves me time and you bandwidth, so maybe that is a win-win.
2. Even if I turned off my adblocker, there is no way in hell I will ever click on an online ad. It is bad enough when I search for something or read something that might be even vaguely commercial. Search for "<something> review" and for the next six months I will be bombarded by search results, promoted articles, promoted posts, etc for <something>. I can only imagine what a hellscape my online life would be if I actually was stupid enough to click on an ad.
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Just over a year ago, the two ads that I saw in the most prominent spot on Facebook’s Web site–at the top-right corner–had me think for a moment that I was seeing double. They mimicked the notifications, messages and menu buttons above, a form of impersonation banned by ad-standards policies at online platforms that want to stay in business.
The “Using Meta Intellectual Property and Licenses” page, linked to from Meta’s ad-standards page, makes that much clear. The text there bans content depicting Meta user interfaces in a manner that:
Is an inaccurate depiction of the current appearance, features, or functionality of the products.
Modifies the user interface in any way, such as adding special effects, interference or animation.
Uses elements of the user interface separately or individually
Does not depict the user interface within the context of a relevant device like a mobile or desktop.
And the text of these ads–each saying I had new messages, with a link to a .shop address below–also seemed an unambiguous case of deceptive behavior. I filed a report but don’t remember what Facebook did with it and can’t check anyway, because there’s no record of my report in Facebook’s “Support Inbox.”
I do, however, know what Facebook did when I reported two new ads last week that took this deceptive template and twisted it to suggest that my Facebook account was in danger, as you can see in the image above. The response to both of my reports, received Wednesday morning: “We didn’t remove the ad.”
This should have been an easy call. Advertising policies should rank among the top rules at an advertising-supported platform–having some ads look like scams makes readers wonder how many other advertisers are trying to rip them off and pollutes the well for legitimate businesses.
(I could say the same about the garbage ads that keep crawling out of the programmatic-advertising cesspool, but that’s another post.)
But while I’m dismayed to see Facebook trip over its own shoelaces this badly, I am not susprised. So much of the user experience on that platform now–the incessant suggestions that I join groups and follow pages tangentially related to my interests, the increasingly ad-dense layout of my feed, the chaotically-sorted algorithm that reveals friends were in town days after they left, the scattershot “People You May Know” suggestions–speaks to no higher priority than trying whatever might momentarily push #engagement.
Inconveniently enough, Facebook remains the leading place online for me to see what most friends and family are up to, followed more or less by Instagram. So this company continues to get its chances to monetize my eyeballs.
I can, however, choose where I try to promote my own work. And Facebook left that list years ago, because of the reasons above and because of this company’s history of rug-pulling newsrooms. My public page that once seemed like a valuable bit of reader outreach might as well be covered in cobwebs; I last posted anything there in April, a link to a PCMag story about Meta’s content-moderation machinery running amok that closed with a reminder to look me up on Patreon. These days, I can’t even be bothered to delete the scam notifications on my page from fraudsters impersonating Facebook support staff.
In other words: Don’t even think of suggesting that I put more time into Threads.
#advertisingPolicies #advertisingStandards #engagement #facebook #FacebookAds #fakeAds #meta #onlineAds #rules #scamAds
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If you or your organization advertises on Twitch, you might want to rethink.
Apparently they are now serving ads within the stream rather than from an external server source, which gets around ad blockers. Fine, they have a right to serve ads for their "free" service.
But like many other services that have suffered #enshittification they are doing things in the worst possible way for users and advertisers.
Fired up the app and was hit with over 5 minutes of unskippable ads before I could even see what the content was (more on that in a moment.) As usual, I had the media volume on my tablet muted (only unmute when I purposely play a video of my choice). So, four advertisers wasted their money playing muted ads I didn't even look at. Then I tried to cast the stream -- and was treated to another 5 minute ad block. Actually at that point I just gave up and closed the app.
I only watch reruns of MST3K and RiffTrax on Twitch. The parts of ads that I noticed were for video games. So, if you think you are getting "targeted" ads on Twitch, forget it, just like everyone else they are just throwing crap at the wall and telling advertisers, "Totally targeted, dude!"
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Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence
Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups.
#meta #hindutva #AI #HateCrime #instagram #facebook #communalism #BJP #islamophobia #IndianMuslims #ICWI #BigTech #CommunalViolence #OnlineAds #india
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I just don't understand Google's continued ban on advertising by 3rd party tech support businesses. We have been in business for over 15 years and have a 5.0 review rating with hundreds of reviews. We want to give you money... You have SO much data - I guarantee you could come up with a way to verify legitimate businesses quite easily.
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EU policymakers nail down agreement on political advertising https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/eu-policymakers-nail-down-agreement-on-political-advertising/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #onlineads #onlineadvertising #Onlinepoliticaladvertising
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Dutch EU lawmakers urge Google to put a stop on fraudulent ads https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/dutch-eu-lawmakers-urge-google-to-put-a-stop-on-fraudulent-ads/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Google #onlineads
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Dutch EU lawmakers urge Google to put a stop on fraudulent ads https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/dutch-eu-lawmakers-urge-google-to-put-a-stop-on-fraudulent-ads/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Google #onlineads
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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk - “…stuff that's pushed to you via targeted ads costs an average of 10 percent more, and it significantly more likely to come from a vendor with a poor rating from the Better Business Bureau”. From Cory Doctorow via Pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors #onlineads #socialmedia #advertising #digitaladvertising #commerce #ecommerce #buyingonline #targetedads #adtargeting #digitalads
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Great report by @ProPublica
"Google’s embrace of publisher confidentiality means roughly 1 million publishers can remain anonymous to companies and individuals who buy ads on its network to reach customers. This opens the door to a range of abuses and schemes that steal potentially billions of dollars a year and put lives and livelihoods at risk due to dangerous disinformation, fraud and scams."
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud
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US privacy, consumer, competition and civil rights groups urge ban on ‘surveillance advertising’ - Ahead of another big tech vs Congress ‘grab your popcorn’ grilling session, scheduled for March 25 —... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/z0BhF-VGRUc/ #advertisingtech #microtargeting #misinformation #behavioralads #surveillance #onlineads #facebook #privacy #policy #google
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Digital marketing firms file UK competition complaint against Google’s Privacy Sandbox - Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xk170SXnSLc/ #trackingcookies #privacysandbox #competition #onlineads #privacy #europe #google #gdpr #cma
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Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online - Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about?
There’s n... more: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/oracle-bluekai-web-tracking/ #generaldataprotectionregulation #attorneygeneral #datacollection #openinternet #unitedstates #webtraffic #onlineads #security #database #privacy #bluekai #equifax #amazon #iphone -
Facebook data misuse and voter manipulation back in the frame with latest Cambridge Analytica leaks - More details are emerging about the scale and scope of disgraced data company Cambridge Analytica’s ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_OcgIb8j2MU/ #federaltradecommission #cambridgeanalytica #josephchancellor #aleksandrkogan #brittanykaiser #markzuckerberg #dcmscommittee #newhampshire #thegreathack #unitedstates #donaldtrump #chriswylie #marketing #onlineads
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Sex tech companies and advocates protest unfair ad standards outside Facebook’s NY HQ - A group of sex tech startup founders, employees and supporters gathered outside of Facebook’s NY off... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GsvQK2zeEEQ/ #digitaladvertising #operatingsystems #advertisingtech #internetculture #photosharing #unitedstates #loradicarlo #socialmedia #computing #instagram #onlineads #facebook #software #gadgets #google #ceo #tc