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.
Well, my ad blocker will just block twice as many ads then.
SaltSong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Right, because we all know how effective it is to be hit with the same ad fifteen times an hour.
Zulu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My response to google or any of their adjacents is “wait people are seeing ads?”
Even though i know that yes, the majority do just let the ads blare into their brain. I just don’t engage with them to a point that it surprises me people still have energy to complain about em.
Recently told one of my friends about ublock and he was flabbergasted. He’d been just raw dogging the internet since its creation. Was more surprised he never stopped to think “maybe it doesn’t have to be like this.”
SaltSong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Yea, that’s a point, but I suspect that most people don’t know how to block them.
And at work, I don’t have ad block of any kind. Rarely matters, but sometimes.