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.

  • @seven_phone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32•5 days ago

    Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their ‘experimentations’. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they would from honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32•5 days ago

      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.

      • MaggiWuerzeEnglish
        8•4 days ago
        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

        • @taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7•4 days ago

          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

          • MaggiWuerzeEnglish
            8•4 days ago

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

            • @monarch@lemm.eeEnglish
              4•4 days 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.

      • @Zirconium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•5 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

      • sunzu2
        2•5 days ago

        That’s parasitic behaviour in the nut shell.

        Deny the parasitic trash engagement and profit.