Feel free to correct me as I see other comments saying the same thing, but I don’t believe Google wants you to spend a lot of time reviewing a specific search result.

They don’t have refreshing display or video ads where time on site really makes a difference. They want you to click on a sponsored result, which is a paid action worth way more than a viewed impression.

I was the same until I was actively looking for another job. I wanted to ability to provide an instant read/response.

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As a presenter would be mortified.

As an attendee, hilarious.

That’s not really Forbes serving the malvertising intentionally. If your site hooks into a programmatic advertising stack, the risk of malware exists. This is from 2016, but it’s mostly true today. If a user is blocking ads and cookies and they disable their ad blocker on a specific site only, there’s little data to know about that user. So you get low $CPM on the bid which is mainly where the malicious ads win bids on actual quality sites. That’s why most top sites are very strict on who can bid nowadays.

Imagining a returning user who previously consented. If non essential cookies changed since their last visit, that user needs to consent again. But in scenario, just auto opt them out? I’m weirdly on the fence between this might be a reasonable block or a violation of GDPR for denying access to users who do not provide consent.

This is so dramatic. Wine tasting isn’t full pours. Tasting 5-6 wines is usually 1.5 - 2 glass equivalent. In California I see people drink it all way more than they pour or spit. You are definitely not getting kicked out for drinking wine you paid to try. I don’t even want to touch the braising/deglazing with alcohol part, but it’s also bullshit.

What’s the identifier referenced in the IMDB database? Some kind of unique content id?

I think doing that with programmatic ads would be difficult. Maybe hard coding a specific creative would be feasible.

I would like to imagine a world where site advertising was reasonable. Ad blockers don’t exist, sites advertise 1 or 2 banners at $3-5 CPM and everyone gets paid and consumes content in synchrony. It won’t happen. Advertising is setup for ad blocking audiences and iOS cookieless environments. Everyone else subsidizes by viewing the myriad of placements splattered all over the page.

This is true, but they have your encrypted vault, and all the technical data to make unlimited informed attempts at cracking it. If you used LastPass, you definitely need to be changing passwords for your critical services at a minimum.

Randos on Twitter left negative comments with little to no substantive feedback. Fire up the article!

Years ago I worked for a company that had ads appear on Breitbart. Retargeted display, not a direct buy on the site. People would screenshot the ads and light up our Twitter complaining we were directly supporting hate speech etc, so we asked our demand partner to stop buying there to avoid negative engagement on our social. If your site gets a critical mass of negative attention brands can shut down your ability to be commercially viable, and effectively censor the content in a way.

Kids pasta shells are already $16.25. I don’t think they can raise them any more.