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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by jancsika on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:07PM (#24629518)
> (looking at the companies who buy Google AdWords on their own brand - if someone's searching for your brand on Google your website will already be the top result - a click on the ad is not a true "conversion" in this case and is just wasted money)

Except that Google lets anyone else advertise in that slot above your brand. And as we've seen some companies can confuse the customers and steal them away in such an ad.

If we tacitly accept a search engine allowing such phishing expeditions in those ads, then this kind of spending is the necessary and only step companies can take.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by spockz on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:27PM (#24631895)
This happened today to me. I searched for the “DigiD” app which is the 2FA app for your social services account with the Dutch government. The app was the second app. Even though it matched fully on the query. The first app was some other document scanning app from some vendor. I can imagine someone paying less intention would install the wrong app.

I’m actually considering whether it would be a good thing if the app stores would verify government applications and perhaps not even allow ads on queries which have results that include governmental apps...

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by abiogenesis on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:27PM (#24634252)
That would be a nice and easy way for any government to censor TikTok.

"Hey, have you seen the new COVID-19 contact tracing app? It's named TikTok-19".

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