Google to punish sites that use intrusive pop-over ads - Polidicks

[quote]Pop-up ads are annoying on desktop, but even more frustrating on mobile devices when they sometimes take over the browser. Google wants to fix that: in a blog post, the company announced that, starting next year, websites with intrusive advertisements will be punished and may be pushed down in search results. Essentially, Google wants search results to favor sites that have the best information and the least annoying advertisements that cover up that information. "While the underlying content is present on the page and available to be indexed by Google," the blog post says, "content may be visually obscured by an interstitial. This can frustrate users because they are unable to easily access the content that they were expecting when they tapped on the search result." Google claims these intrusive ads and interstitials create "a poorer experience" for users, particularly on mobile where space is limited by smaller screens. It's not wrong—sometimes pop-up or pop-over ads that show up on mobile websites can take up the entire display, forcing you to view them while furiously trying to find the "X" to close them. After January 10, 2017, sites that show these kinds of ads (which include content-obscuring "please subscribe to our newsletter!" pop-overs) "may not rank as highly" in search results.[/quote] [url]http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/google-to-punish-sites-that-use-intrusive-pop-over-ads/[/url] YES

Honestly if more systems like this were put in place, I would consider turning my adblock off.

yeaaah boi

Fuck yeah!Wait...what?Why do this now?I'm not complaining,i hate getting those annoying porn ads and the betting ads too when i am surfing the web.

[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;50942397]Honestly if more systems like this were put in place, I would consider turning my adblock off.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't.

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;50942518]I wouldn't.[/QUOTE] Well, he only said he'd consider it.

I love google.

I'd be happy to be able to whitelist more sites.

I don't mind the interstitials as much as I do the flyout ads that cover the whole screen while I'm trying to scroll through pages or those terrible redirect ads that open and focus a new tab and promptly fuck over my entire phone by turning on the vibration motor and opening dialog boxes so I can't close out of the tab and I have to force quit the browser. Why there are even functions to give websites that much control over a device without the user's consent I'll never understand.

They better slam similar websites like kisscartoon/anime/drama fuck me the pop-out ads are as close as you can get to adware. Its even worse on the fact that you cannot watch a video if you don't turn off yer adblock there's a bunch of asshole websites that do that.

ty mr google

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;50942867]While I understand the importance of revenue, the shear annoyance of being shown the same ads over and over again (looking at you, youtube), has lead me to block ads at the router level. And i'm not turning it off, ever. As long as advertising consists of "BUY THIS GREAT THING x 50", its staying on. seriously. I wouldn't mind watching an ad for "the purge" if you didn't make me look at the same ad every video I watch.[/QUOTE] I would love to know how you did that. Would to care to share with me?

[QUOTE=MrWhite;50942695]I don't mind the interstitials as much as I do the flyout ads that cover the whole screen while I'm trying to scroll through pages or those terrible redirect ads that open and focus a new tab and promptly fuck over my entire phone by turning on the vibration motor and opening dialog boxes so I can't close out of the tab and I have to force quit the browser. Why there are even functions to give websites that much control over a device without the user's consent I'll never understand.[/QUOTE] This. Especially ones that force open the playstore to some stupid game. I've considered rating those apps with one star just because the developer/publisher obviously pays for that cancerous shit.

[QUOTE=gjsdeath;50942905]This. Especially ones that force open the playstore to some stupid game. I've considered rating those apps with one star just because the developer/publisher obviously pays for that cancerous shit.[/QUOTE] The worst ones are the ones that take you to some obvious scam site telling you something is wrong with your phone.

On one hand, I like this On the other hand, google is moderating the internet and that's fucking retarded because they don't own it, and they have a functional monopoly

Browsing on Android is the worst almost every site has an add that opens a new tab fucking spams to shit buzzes your phone and just makes you have to force close.

[QUOTE=phygon;50942998]On one hand, I like this On the other hand, google is moderating the internet and that's fucking retarded because they don't own it[/QUOTE] They don't have to own it, they have a database of websites, they can do what they want with that database pretty much. And hell they've pretty much done it from the start, making more "relevant" search results appear over others.

I'm more concerned with Google getting worse at showing me relevant results anymore because they have to shove "popular sites" at the top of the results even if they're irrelevant to what I'm searching for. Any time I search for some video game specific thing IGN Kotaku and Wikipedia are always the top results when on page 3 there's the info I actually needed. It never used to be like this until [URL="http://bluetechstorm.com/google-search-sucks/"]Google changed their search algorithm.[/URL] (good read with sources). Hopefully in 2017 we get some better search engine that uses Google's old algorithm once the patent on PageRank expires. Also, I use Firefox on my Android phone because it allows for extensions like uBlock Origin so I can browse my phone, without ads, without root. Also I can get Firefox sync which helps when I need to go the restroom but still want to read the site I was on. There's probably a way to do it with other browsers like Dolphin but I'm used to Firefox already.

If Bing makes the jump to pagerank next year I'm switching. So sick of some of the things Google has changed (I'm looking at you, image search) and Bing's interface is so much easier to use and understand for me. If only the searches were consistently more/as relevant as Google's, I'd use Bing exclusively.

Rip forbes

[QUOTE=spectator1;50942755]They better slam similar websites like kisscartoon/anime/drama fuck me the pop-out ads are as close as you can get to adware. Its even worse on the fact that you cannot watch a video if you don't turn off yer adblock there's a bunch of asshole websites that do that.[/QUOTE] that's why anti-anti-adblock lists exist, but you're dependent entirely on people figuring out how they are detecting it and how it can be tricked.

Good, now my browsing experience'll be less shit when I'm using the Steam browser.

Good. Glad to see that Google is taking action.

Companies complain about adblock programs. But it wouldn't be a problem if ads were non-intrusive. I had an experience with the whole screen ad today on my android device. Not only is it intrusive, but it's laggy as fuck and impossible to hit the X without hitting the ad.

About fricking time as it's been impossible browsing some sites on a phone, literally just flicks a popup with a popup inside 'till you've got 20 pages open and a phone spazzing hard.

[QUOTE=MrWhite;50943221]If Bing makes the jump to pagerank next year I'm switching. So sick of some of the things Google has changed (I'm looking at you, image search) and Bing's interface is so much easier to use and understand for me. If only the searches were consistently more/as relevant as Google's, I'd use Bing exclusively.[/QUOTE] What problem do you have with googles newer image search

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;50944788]What problem do you have with googles newer image search[/QUOTE] It's not that it's necessarily bad, but Bing does it better. -The back button on Bing's takes you out of a specific selected image and back to the wall of search results, while Google images requires you to click the X button to do that. Bing's search filters aren't hidden behind a deceptive "search tools" button that is right next to a little gear icon that would make you think that [I]that[/I] is the search tools button. -Bing had filters for transparent images readily available before Google exposed it as a common filter option. -Clicking on the image preview in Bing takes you straight to the source image file, while doing the same in Google takes you to the page that the image is on, requiring either a "right click->view source" or another click or 2 after getting to that page for the source image. Are any of these issues extremely serious? Not really. It's more that I can get to what I want just that much quicker with Bing than with Google. I don't really like to recommend Bing because I know that, in general, results just aren't as relevant as Google's, but in this instance I'm able to find what I want usually much faster by using Bing rather than Google.

Does this mean Wikia will stop being a top result? because honestly, fuck Wikia

Ads that open the Google play store are the worst

[QUOTE=lordofdafood;50945908]Ads that open the Google play store are the worst[/QUOTE] Even when you already have the app downloaded. OH god.