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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by _eht on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:01PM (#14153164)
Working with Google ads for over seven years as a publisher, they have one of the cleanest ad networks in the game. On top of that, you can preview every single ad that is shown with your account and block accordingly.

I agree, they need to thread carefully, but things need to change, and that change needs to come from two angles: publishers whoring out their users and ad networks not taking responsibility for what they let on their networks.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by mkl on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:50PM (#14153546)
> you can preview every single ad that is shown with your account and block accordingly.

Really? I've never used Google ads, so for all I know you're right, but why would none of the ~600 comments in the previous discussion [1] mention that?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14094083

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by _eht on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:55AM (#14154288)
https://support.google.com/adxseller/answer/4587864?hl=en

I'm on the Adx platform, which was invite only a few years back. It has some differences to Adsense, but I believe ad review and transparency with what creatives are displayed is part of both cores.

If I were to guess, there were 600 people in the thread who were not actually publishers using Google ads.

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