"I never saw most of the offending ads because of my adblocker, so I didn’t notice the changes or experience any irritation personally. "

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If you run a website that serves ads, whitelist it in your adblocker so you can see what your own damned site looks like to people who are still rawdogging the world wide web.

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influx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most people who ran AdSense were extremely careful not to look at the ads on their own site, because Google might flag them for intentionally inflating clicks or views.

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vitorgrs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

When I was a teen, like, 15 years ago or so, my Google Ads account got permanently banned because I made the mistake of clicking on my own ad. :)

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glaslong 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is why I greatly prefer podcasts where the hosts read the ads. If you're going to take ad money, you better be willing to sell it with your own voice. All else is a descent into scam ad hell.

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kdheiwns 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Everybody does that and has for the past 10 years. People sell the scammiest stuff then completely dissociate and say "sorry guys I didn't know that was a scam haha. I won't do it again. This program brought to you by Honey. I use it and it's great." Their viewers always forgive them.

	▲	addaon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Their viewers always forgive them. Pretty strong selection bias there. And no way to know how many potential viewers avoided them after the first ad read.