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Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. (www.seroundtable.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.

We have

a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
ruining our planet's climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,...

Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…

In my city there is a public vote planned for an ad free cityscape and all of a sudden i see adverts claiming that only adverts keep stuff like Soup kitchens or other charities in the publics focus and how good ads are in public space. It's a goddamn disease

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.

Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't forget light pollution that wrecks peoples and animals biorythms

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Light pollution makes me so sad. You have to get so far away from cities to not have the all encompassing glow of the cities to not affect your view of the sky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I've been contemplating the effects of a constitutional amendment to ban all forms of paid advertisements for physical and digital and Im only able to think of YouTube being shut down but that's alright by me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's parasitic behaviour in the nut shell.

Deny the parasitic trash engagement and profit.