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drekly , (edited )

I work with Google ads every day (with small businesses not shit like this)

Press the three dots at the top right and report it as being offensive. Nothing is more frustrating than being disapproved, and it’s often automated with enough clicks. Sometimes it takes a week to get someone at Google to manually unblock an ad even if it was flagged incorrectly (a eye surgeon client of mine being flagged for his ads containing alcohol sales?)

Oh also, I imagine it’ll decrease the relevancy of the ads because Google will automatically take your feedback on board and feed it into the bidding system. The more your ad is deemed irrelevant, the less strength it will have, so will either cost more, or lose rankings against their competitors. (I doubt you can spam this though, it likely has spam protection so lots of people need to do it all the time.)

adespoton ,

I went to do exactly this, and then realized I can’t, because I’ve never seen an ad on Google. I’ve been blocking them since I switched from AltaVista and MetaCrawler, where I also blocked ads.

Then again, I rarely use Google these days either, as the results are usually obvious or misleading.

sfbing ,

Aha! So YOU are the reason AltaVista died!

adespoton ,

I was never part of their business plan.

Omega_Haxors ,

I reported their daily wire transphobia documentary ad like 4 times and still ended up getting it. They don’t care. They support it.

drekly ,

The problem is that the machine is so big that there barely is a “they” anymore. It’s all automated. Support takes days to reply, and they’re all outsourced to sales teams in the Philippines.

It’s crazy I can have an ad disapproved when I didn’t even use the content they say I did, but someone reports an ad multiple times and it stays up. I imagine they have some kind of threshold where a certain percentage of the viewership needs to report it.

I’m talking about Google here, last time I used Facebook was almost a decade ago and their platform was even more of a mess and had much more creepy tracking.

Stumblinbear ,
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They support money, and showing you the ad gets google more money. This isn’t some ideological thing, they just like money. It’s not rocket science.

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