We’re dropping Google Ads

Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by bluGill on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:49AM (#14098174)

Fortunately, Facebook seems to have some standards for ads: I don't see the porn/Russian brides/make money fast ads on Facebook like I see elsewhere. (except for a few real world friends involved in some MMF scam who use their personal status to advertise - not Facebooks' fault there though)

I do judge publishers by the quality of ads they accept. You cannot advertise a borderline illegal MMF scam and be considered legit. So when I see such ads I assume the news is at best a twisting of the truth, at worst completely fake. Quality editors will take less revenue to ensure that their advertising is not a scam.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by bad_user on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:22AM (#14098544)

Sure, I agree about quality, but if we continue blocking ads, then how are we going to end up rewarding the good actors?

I mean, this GroundUp site decided to drop Google's ads in order to improve usability for users and because the gains aren't worth it.

But this change won't get noticed by users having ad-blockers installed.

And if they'll decide to push high-quality in-house ads in order to survive, all it takes is somebody submitting a new rule in uBlock's or AdBlock's repository and then that revenue will be lost, with no discrimination.

Again, because of the status quo I too have ad-blockers installed everywhere, phone included. But it's not a win-win situation and that bothers me.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by gorhill on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:26PM (#14100379)

> all it takes is somebody submitting a new rule in uBlock's or AdBlock's repository and then that revenue will be lost, with no discrimination.

Anybody is free to disable their blocker on any site. If you want a site to be funded by mean of ads and you are fine with the ads served to you, just disable your blocker on that site.

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