Google Ads
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:24 am
I took the time to read the acceptable ads policy.
Please tell me how this is non-intrusive (resized to 75%, click image for full size):
13 ads! And that's being generous as I didn't count the 4 text-link ads beneath "Microsoft Store has 268 followers on Google+".
Here's the same page with the ads blocked: LINK (liked so not to spam images). Google provided 9 (not 10) results to the search on page 1. In my view this does not meet the criteria set out in the "acceptable ads" criteria/policy. Google already has a complete monopoly on web-browsers, do they really need all their ads displayed by default in ABP?
Now, while I'm at it I'd like to suggest that DuckDuckGo's ads do meet the non-intrusive criteria:
And that there's a clear option to disable ads on DDG anyway.
Please tell me how this is non-intrusive (resized to 75%, click image for full size):
13 ads! And that's being generous as I didn't count the 4 text-link ads beneath "Microsoft Store has 268 followers on Google+".
Here's the same page with the ads blocked: LINK (liked so not to spam images). Google provided 9 (not 10) results to the search on page 1. In my view this does not meet the criteria set out in the "acceptable ads" criteria/policy. Google already has a complete monopoly on web-browsers, do they really need all their ads displayed by default in ABP?
Now, while I'm at it I'd like to suggest that DuckDuckGo's ads do meet the non-intrusive criteria:
And that there's a clear option to disable ads on DDG anyway.