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Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by kuschku on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:52AM (#10159102)
Their TV ads were mostly ignored, but most people ended up accidentally clicking one of the Chrome ads, and then actually tried it out. There were days where every single YouTube preroll ad was for Chrome, every side ad was for chrome, every ad in the bottom of the video was for Chrome, every single ad served by AdWords was for Chrome, on Google.com were ads for Chrome in the top right with an animated arrow, there were ads for Chrome below and above the search box, etc.

It was horrible, and I really believe this was unfair competition. Especially as people using AdSense complained that they got paid next to nothing or nothing for people viewing and clicking Chrome ads.

Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by bduerst on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @02:38PM (#10161165)
And you know this how?

When they launched chrome, the browser wars had long since been won. Everyone who knew what a browser was had installed firefox, and everyone else thought IE was the internet. Just because you ignored the ads doesn't mean the general public did. It sounds like you're being biased.

If you're going to attribute Chrome's growth to "accidental clicks on ad manipulation" instead of the massive awareness campaign, you're going to need to provide proof.

Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by kuschku on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @05:15PM (#10161929)
Well, in Germany Firefox is still far larger than Chrome. Chrome eats up the share of IE, but can’t touch FF.
Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by bduerst on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @05:53PM (#10162147)
How does that equate to ad auction abuse?
Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by kuschku on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @06:07PM (#10162215)
Sorry, I might have misunderstood your comment.

Several people on this page provided statistics and reports how they got nothing or next to nothing when Google replaced all ads in the AdWords network with their Chrome ads.

As I’m also not interested enough in the topic to research sources just to change your opinion, I don’t care if you’ll downvote me again.

Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by bduerst on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @08:01PM (#10162683)
I checked this page and nobody here links to anything supporting ad auction abuse as you say.

Are you sure you understand what you're talking about?

Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by kuschku on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @08:26PM (#10162746)
I meant "several people on HN mentioned in a post when Chrome was introduced", not "several people in this HN thread". Sorr :/
Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by bduerst on Thursday September 03, 2015 @09:37PM (#10168422)
>Several people on this page

That's not what you meant.

Re:Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use An... by kuschku on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:34AM (#10170257)
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. This page == Hacker News. If I meant this thread, I’d have seat this thread.