seasonone@opidea.xyz to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoGoogle engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossiblestackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnews@radiation.partyhackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squareMeshPotato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoLouis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect. https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas In short: it’s fake views. That’s were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn’t discourage advertisers since they don’t pay for unviewed ads.
Louis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect.
https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas
In short: it’s fake views. That’s were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn’t discourage advertisers since they don’t pay for unviewed ads.