How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users

Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by robin_reala on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:17AM (#12442689)

I think you can? https://contributor.google.com . Not that I’ve tried it - I’m not allowed to in the UK.

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by Veen on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:14AM (#12443089)

Contributor is only for sites that use Google's ad products. I don't think it works in Search.

Essentially, it's a way for a site's users to bid for its ad spots. If you bid more than the advertisers, you don't have to see the ads.

It's quite a clever idea really, but I don't think it has much uptake from publishers.

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by bduerst on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:26PM (#12448454)

I use it and it probably covers about 65-75% of ads I see, and almost 100% on news websites. I've also seen it work in apps.

It's too bad there wasn't some way to have it cross over networks too.

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by Globz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#12443016)

I get this error when I try to sign-up : Error fetching data. Please try again later.

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