Brave files adtech complaint against Google

Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google by dogweather on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:50PM (#17974231)

> Brave doesn't touch first-party ads. If you wish to advertise to your visitors, we respect that.

That's pretty interesting. So, as an online publisher, if I make my own deals directly with the advertisers and then host and serve the assets myself, Brave doesn't flag it.

I used to do this, but it's very time consuming. I've essentially delegated this work to Adsense.

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Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google by notriddle on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:29AM (#17976033)

But AdSense doesn't do a good job of it. I've seen ads that mess my browser's scroll bar, mine Monero, and pretend to be warnings from the FBI. That's why I use an ad blocker.

Frankly, you should take responsibility for every resource that your web page pulls down. I don't really care whether you do it yourself or have someone else do it, but if your ad network is serving up malicious JavaScript on a regular basis, then they're not doing their job right and you should fire them.

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