[HN Gopher] We're Dropping Google Ads (2017)
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We're Dropping Google Ads (2017)
Author : metadat
Score : 53 points
Date : 2022-10-27 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| cpurdy wrote:
| Ads suck.
|
| Google sucks.
|
| Put those two things together, and not surprisingly, the result
| is awful.
| strongpigeon wrote:
| Display Ads from ads network are the some of the worst. Since
| they're around the content you care about, they try to be as
| attention grabbing as possible to make you look away. Hence, you
| get pictures of famous people, weird looking things and sexually
| suggestive images...
|
| I know money is nice, but I can't imagine being so disrespectful
| to my users as to put unvetted display network ads like this.
| Don't get me started on Taboola.
| nevi-me wrote:
| 5 years later, the system (not just GAdds) remains broken. The
| same kind of ads that Ground Up refers to, everywhere.
|
| MS Edge's launch page is riddled with these ads, they appear on
| otherwise high profile news outlets.
|
| The other irritating thing with the tracking. You could look for
| a fridge, find, buy, receive it. But you'll remain getting ads
| about fridges for a week. Repeated ads, go to the speedcheck
| website, I sometimes get the same thing plastered all over the
| page.
|
| As long as the listicle websites receive traffic, there'll be
| buyers for these nonsense and scammy ads.
| Filligree wrote:
| > The other irritating thing with the tracking. You could look
| for a fridge, find, buy, receive it. But you'll remain getting
| ads about fridges for a week. Repeated ads, go to the
| speedcheck website, I sometimes get the same thing plastered
| all over the page.
|
| Most people who buy fridges have recently bought a fridge.
| Having done so is the single strongest signal for "will buy a
| fridge" in existence.
|
| The reason for this is that sometimes fridges immediately
| malfunction and the customer goes looking for another one,
| which happens far more often than buying one in the first
| place. Not that this makes it look any less strange.
| candiodari wrote:
| Crap. I actually did that 4 months ago (it was soooo much
| faster than the service repair) and now I feel ashamed.
| jjulius wrote:
| Not to speak for OP, but the fridge is just one example of
| millions. If the product involves me doing any research on it
| ahead of time, or trying to debate the merits of competing
| products, it's almost always advertised to me ad nauseam
| post-purchase. One example of many, I bought a subwoofer in
| August for my studio and have been bombarded with ads for the
| very same sub ever since, even just this morning.
|
| Edit: I'd also like to see a statistic, re: "Most people who
| buy fridges have recently bought a fridge". If that's the
| case, then the fail rate for fridges on the market is
| egregiously high. You say " _sometimes_ fridges malfunction
| ", but I can't square away that "sometimes" with the phrase
| "most people" used earlier.
| taneq wrote:
| Yep, a few years ago I bought a drone. Months of ads for
| the same drone that I'd bought. A year ago I bought a high
| end upgrade monitor and I'm still getting spammed with
| similar models. Meanwhile over the last year I've
| consistently been buying end mills and work holding stuff
| for the CNC router I bought at the same time and...
| nothing. You'd think they'd focus on consumables related to
| recent big purchases.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| > The reason for this is that sometimes fridges immediately
| malfunction and the customer goes looking for another one...
|
| Probably time to buy fridges with warranty coverage. Which
| should be basically all of them, as long as you're not buying
| stuff that "fell off the back of the truck".
| motoboi wrote:
| I'd like to aimlessly comment that I tried very hard and could
| not remember the last time I clicked in an google AD.
|
| I suppose that the last time that happened should be _at least_ 5
| years, because that was when started using ad blockers. Before
| that, I was just annoyed by them, so I suppose the last click was
| years before that, when maybe they made any sense.
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| summerlight wrote:
| > 10 April 2017 | By Nathan Geffen
|
| I think it's helpful for viewers to put the year in the title,
| which is an important signal in that this site was able to
| survive for 5 years without ads.
| metadat wrote:
| Thank you summerlight; updated.
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