Ask HN: Are full-page Google Ads more frequent now?
They seem to be everywhere and it’s terribly disrupting to me. I don’t remember seeing them aside from very scammy sites before. Now they are even on reputable ones.
Is this related to a decrease in Google’s payment to site owners?
Can they choose to enable it or opt-out?
If you told me the small, tasteful, text-only Google Ads of the early 2000s would morph into something that obscures the entire page while still dominating the ad market, I’d call you crazy.
Together with the pricing increase of Google Workspace, (doubling in just one year, in my case), drastic reducing the reCAPTCHA free limit, etc, it seems reasonable to me to assume that Google’s profit are declining to an unsustainable degree. Or is it just confirmation bias?
Is this related to a decrease in Google’s payment to site owners? Can they choose to enable it or opt-out?
If you told me the small, tasteful, text-only Google Ads of the early 2000s would morph into something that obscures the entire page while still dominating the ad market, I’d call you crazy.
Together with the pricing increase of Google Workspace, (doubling in just one year, in my case), drastic reducing the reCAPTCHA free limit, etc, it seems reasonable to me to assume that Google’s profit are declining to an unsustainable degree. Or is it just confirmation bias?