Imagine what would have happened if there were 40 competing companies in the market looking for user support.
Popunders, exploits, bring-your-browser-to-a-crawl ads that spurred a massive move to ad blockers.
This submission is poised to bring out everyone with a chip on their shoulder about Google or Adwords, but the reality is that Google's ad quality control is one of the primary reasons they have been successful. Further I am skeptical of the innocence of so many.
In this particular case, the outcome seems obvious -- it was an abuse of the free ads coupons. Simply thinking through it made the end result inevitable.
I have to agree that were google not doing this we would be constantly exposed to a lot of spammy, low-quality ads. Anybody who has run any kind of similar service knows that you spend 95% of your energy keeping spammers out of your system and unfortunately it is the legit users who wind up jumping through hoops.
Popunders, exploits, bring-your-browser-to-a-crawl ads that spurred a massive move to ad blockers.
This submission is poised to bring out everyone with a chip on their shoulder about Google or Adwords, but the reality is that Google's ad quality control is one of the primary reasons they have been successful. Further I am skeptical of the innocence of so many.
In this particular case, the outcome seems obvious -- it was an abuse of the free ads coupons. Simply thinking through it made the end result inevitable.