Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
Seeming that I’m getting increasingly pissed off by Spotify giving 5 or more ads without 30 minute adless times and for every 5th song rather than every 8th or 10th, I’m gonna have even more stress from the doubling of all google ads.
At least ublock origin lite does its job pretty well on YouTube, so I won’t need to worry until google eventually kills that too.
Yay, now the world’s worst profiling service can show the same completely irrelevant add twice!
If you’re a business and using Google to serve targeted ads, think twice. Their targeting is absolutely horse-shit mumbojumbo. They’re wasting your money, their money, and my time by consistently serving the least-relevant, no-fucking-chance-I’d-click-on-that ads.
You’d be better off paying local pigeons for investing advice.
Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their ‘experimentations’. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they would from honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.
You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.
We have
- a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
- ruining our planet’s climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
- ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
- destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
- keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
- destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…
Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.
destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…In my city there is a public vote planned for an ad free cityscape and all of a sudden i see adverts claiming that only adverts keep stuff like Soup kitchens or other charities in the publics focus and how good ads are in public space. It’s a goddamn disease
Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.
Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising
Don’t forget light pollution that wrecks peoples and animals biorythms
Light pollution makes me so sad. You have to get so far away from cities to not have the all encompassing glow of the cities to not affect your view of the sky.
I’ve been contemplating the effects of a constitutional amendment to ban all forms of paid advertisements for physical and digital and Im only able to think of YouTube being shut down but that’s alright by me
Books don’t have ads.
Have a look at Qualityland, it has (satirical) ads in it. The whole thing is a comment on consumerism
Sorry I don’t watch ads, can be funniest joke on planet if there is brand name in it I don’t listen, my immune system don’t allow me to do that.
They are fictional
Well, advertisement is form of expression. I don’t accept that kind of expression in general just like some people have food intolerance.
Is it really an ad if it’s not actually trying to sell something though?
Is advertising art ?
Every 100th page, there will be a small, “unobtrusive” ad near the bottom of the page. Just to cover rising publishing/paper costs. Then it will be every 50th page, 25th page. Then the ad will get bigger, little by little, until a full page advert is shown every few pages.
Just reinvented a magazine, I know but I could see it happening. The fact that we now have ads showing up in cars at red lights…
You need to burn old books first. Also old CD, DVD, BlueRay movies don’t have ads. There are so many movies produced you won’t be able to see all of them if you start right after born and keep tv on 24/7 for the rest of your days. Don’t get me started about old books and old music. People could literally stop buying those things and they will be fine.
Most of us are just adicted to marketing, news and more things that literally don’t matter because you have no power to change those things. We’re just animals after all, we eat meat so we’re predators, we like to follow the lead.
Amazon says “hold my beer”
Enshittification continues.
Yo, I heard you like ads so we put ads in your ads.
Wasn’t Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?
