> “Unwanted ad injectors aren’t part of a healthy ads ecosystem,” Google Safe Browsing engineer Nav Jagpal writes in today’s announcement. “They’re part of an environment where bad practices hurt users, advertisers and publishers alike.”
Healthy ads ecosystem? WFT? The internet is inundated with garbage because of the perverse incentives wrought by ad-based revenue models, not to mention the other costs of advertising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237.
Google is to me and to a growing number of people an "unwanted ad injector" built into a vast number of web-sites which would, if Google and others didn't make it so easy to get ad revenue, be forced to do what you're supposed to do in a healthy free-market ecosystem: make products good enough that people are willing to pay for them.
> Google is to me and to a growing number of people an "unwanted ad injector" built into a vast number of web-sites…
The difference is that those websites willing allow ads of a specific type to be injected into themselves. The browser toolbars inject ads into everything, which is annoying (and breaks sites due to poorly coded injection).
I'm with you though—ads of any type are pretty annoying. But that's what adblock is for. :-)
Healthy ads ecosystem? WFT? The internet is inundated with garbage because of the perverse incentives wrought by ad-based revenue models, not to mention the other costs of advertising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237.
Google is to me and to a growing number of people an "unwanted ad injector" built into a vast number of web-sites which would, if Google and others didn't make it so easy to get ad revenue, be forced to do what you're supposed to do in a healthy free-market ecosystem: make products good enough that people are willing to pay for them.