We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards

Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by ncallaway on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:05PM (#14474349)

> but they're going to loathe that they had no say.

They had a say. They could have responded to the race to the bottom state of ad display tech. They could have recognized that they were in a tragedy of the commons and formed a coalition for better ads.

They didn't. They continued the race to the bottom.

Each day they continued to push awful ads that harmed the user they were voicing their opinion.

I agree with the rest of your comments, though...

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by zyxzkz on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:25PM (#14474427)

I guess we'll find out if Internet content disappears because of a lack of "Gotcha!" advertising.

My guess is that the Internet will be just fine.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by duncan_bayne on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:42PM (#14474709)

Especially the non Web bits.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by aanm1988 on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:35PM (#14474466)

Are the ads really that awful, or just in an area where google isn't winning already?

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by groby_b on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:49PM (#14474512)

Have you ever surfed the web on mobile, without and ad blocker?

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by majormajor on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:17PM (#14474625)

Mobile really is far worse than desktop web without a blocker, especially on Chrome on Android compared to my previous iOS or Windows Phones. I'd never seen so many driveby attempts to install crappy software.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by jdietrich on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:43PM (#14474717)

The desktop web is still a horrible experience, especially on slow connections or slow computers. Turn off adblock, open the inspector and you'll see ads consuming >90% of bandwidth, memory and CPU, even on mainstream sites. It really is an absurd situation.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by ben-schaaf on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:32AM (#14475023)

That was one of the driving factors that made me switch to firefox (from chrome): I can use uBlock on mobile now.

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