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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)

submitted 3 years ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago

Louis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect.

https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas

In short: it's fake views. That's were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn't discourage advertisers since they don't pay for unviewed ads.

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