Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by tyingq on Sunday September 10, 2017 @11:42AM (#15212679)

Not sure I understand. Both are an overlay blocking content. I suspect Google would still punish an interstitial overlay with a countdown timer that dismissed it. If you don't click, YouTube sometimes makes you watch 30+ seconds of ads.

Here's Google's post about it: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...

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Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by vertex-four on Sunday September 10, 2017 @02:02PM (#15213382)

I've seen a couple of five minute long ads on Youtube. I really doubt anyone intentionally watches them.

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Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by charrondev on Sunday September 10, 2017 @02:52PM (#15213649)

To be honest I've seen a couple advertisements that I watched the full ~5 minutes. Both were game trailers that were really interesting. I would have rather had a "click here to view the actual trailer video instead of the ad version" button though. I was sold after the first 2 minutes, but couldn't see the full name of the game until the end.

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Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by hobarrera on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:15PM (#15215432)

Game trailers as ads?

Over 95% of the stuff I watch on Youtube is gameplays, collagehumor and tech reviews, yet all my ads are diapers or clothing softeners. I've no idea why their algorithm sucks so much for my account.

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Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by Operyl on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:06AM (#15216598)

Unless they figure you’re already going to buy it and don’t bother targeting you?

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Re:Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads by rhizome on Sunday September 10, 2017 @04:19PM (#15214130)

I've seen multi-minute prerolls on videos <1min long.

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