Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences
Google is getting fat off fake Shark Tank weight loss gummies
Google is spoon-feeding fake “Shark Tank approved” weight loss gummy candies to innocent people — and making money doing it.
uBlock on Firefox based browsers works everywhere btw.
Sort of a non-solution for the wider problem isn’t it?
I actually think the "solution" is in this article right here.
I think people have been slowly waking up to internet advertising
Ads are basically the only profitable part of Google, and it's ripe for a new search-model to undermine its now old-and-busted algorithms that are only surfacing AI-produced garbage and for a new ad-competitor that produces an ad-experience that people won't turn on adblockers for.
That was the original promise of AdBlock Plus, that they would make deals with advertisers who agreed to standards that made the ads non-intrusive and clear they were an ad.
I'm not against ads, I'm against an ad industry that thinks we owe them viewing their advertising. No, viewing advertising is a choice it's not a legal requirement for us to use the service, to click on ads and buy things.
If the ad industry could shape up, I wouldn't need uBlock Origin or a Pi-Hole.
There's an opportunity, someone just have to have the capital and take the chance.
Sort of a non-solution for the wider problem isn’t it?
Honestly, I was wondering what people here are talking about. uBO is so effective that you don't notice either its presence or the ads it blocks. uBO might be a real effective solution for the problems you mention - until enough people use and start hurting Google's revenue. Even if it does, uBO is a necessary defense since Google ads are obnoxious and potentially harmful.
Ironically, there’s no easy way to block ads on a modern Apple device. You know, Google’s competition?
? Firefox plus ublock origin works fine on the Mac. Unless you mean ios only?
It’s not super easy but a pihole, with a vpn to always have your device on your home network, isn’t that difficult or time consuming to set up, and will block shit network-wide. No ads in apps, browsers, smart tv firmware, etc. unless it’s hosted within the same domain the content is accessed through (like Amazon's trash).
I’ve used that setup for years and it’s wonderful.
Firefox focus on IOS blocks all Google ads in my experience. There are some it doesn’t get but they’re not through AdSense
Don't be evil.
In a few decades, people will find Google's monopoly on the internet as absurd as we find those miraculous elixirs from the 1930s today
Meanwhile someone will be eating gummies to cure themselves of some modern disease instead of using actual science-proven medication.
in a future near us
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I got a propaganda ad from the IDF on Google recently. No idea how that was allowed, I reported it and so far it's not been taken down
YouTube ads are bad now too, blatant scams and conspiracy theories.
Yep. Getting tons of AI / deepfake videos of Elon Musk selling get-rich-quick schemes
Saw one the other day with Jennifer Anniston. Good enough that it took a second to realize it was deep fake audio and video.
I had that one twice last night watching a link somebody sent. can't believe youtube allows that one through