Re:Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge ...
by alabastervlog on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:11PM
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They weren't positively received in any computer nerd spaces, at any time that I can ever recall—with the sole exception of the "non-evil", well-marked, text-only Google ads that they used to run. There was a lot of "everything except these is bad".
Now google's as bad as any of the old pop-up flash advertisers, plus they intentionally trick people into confusing ads with search results, and they're more effective at tracking people than any of those ad networks were. So there's nothing left to say anything positive about. The single arguably-good version of this entire field of Web ads is long gone.
Re:Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge ...
by ksec on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:10AM
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It is not about ads being positive, but as a necessary evil. And we could at least discuss about the tech behind it, the performance of it without being shut down and downvoted so the whole thing disappeared.
>but it has not been for at least a decade.
Actually yes since around 2013 - 2014. HN has plenty of decent Ad discussions on both buy and sell side pre 2013 / 2014.
Is this comment some sort of performance art? When was the last time any post about ads wasn't filled with people posting about how advertising is evil, all advertising should be banned, ads on the internet are "stealing personal information" and other things like that?
There may have been a point where the way ads are delivered on the internet was positively received on HN but it has not been for at least a decade.