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Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads

posted by martyb on Tuesday November 06 2018, @05:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the limited-abuse dept.

takyon writes:

Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with "abusive experiences"

Google is promising to punish sites that offer what the company calls "abusive experiences." Chrome 71, due for release in December, will blacklist sites that are repeat offenders and suppress all advertising on those sites.

The behaviors deemed abusive cover a range of user-hostile things, such as ads that masquerade as system error messages, ads with fake close boxes that actually activate an ad when clicked, phishing, and malware. In general, if an ad is particularly misleading, destructive, or intrusive, it runs the risk of being deemed abusive.

Chrome already takes some actions against certain undesirable website behaviors; it tries to block popups, it limits autoplay of video, and it blocks certain kinds of redirection. These measures have been insufficient to prevent misleading or dangerous ads, hence Google taking further steps to banish them from the Web.

Also at The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Search Engine Journal.

Previously: Google Preparing to Filter "Unacceptable Ads" in 2018
Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:16PM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:16PM (#758613)

    * To read the content of this post, you must switch to a browser that does not block our malware, you must disable your ad blocker, turn off your firewall, uninstall your virus scanner, and take off your pants so we can rape you whenever we want.

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:37PM (1 child)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:37PM (#758752) Journal

    Many of the ad blocking detection mechanisms rely on...scripts.
     
    Its funny, there are many times i've enabled scripts on a site for some reason only to have it immediately hide what I just read and tell me to disable my ad blocker :-p

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @11:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @11:41AM (#759342)

      Use another site. Most sites are the same and have the same cr*p.
      And if there is anything hiding content just go with adNauseam in a separate browser (I use a sandboxed portable Firefox to it). Used in a larger scale may teach not only not to spread malware, but also not to cooperate in spreading it.