Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome?(consumerist.com) |
Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome?(consumerist.com) |
Oh, so it's click fraud. Yaay. I think as tech people we're so obsessed by our ability to do things we don't consider whether we should.
[1] Quoting from the article:
> [The developer] said that AdNauseam is “definitely an activist tool” that intentionally and deliberately is “trying to show that this hostile disrespect for online privacy would be met with hostility on the part of the users.”
If you have a YouTube channel (s) and your logged in to that channel it will get your channel suspended for Violation of TOU #4 Section H
Google really doesn't like this one..
I get Google bubbled all the time and receive either targeted ads or nag screens from Google itself. I would love to be able to use Gmail without such issues.
Additionally many sites fail to work properly unless certain tracking JavaScript is enabled.
1. Start an incognito window.
2. Tell Google you prefer untargeted ads.
Re: 2, Google also has a cool search engine you can use to learn about things like how to stop ads from remembering you.