An exact match for a search result should never have an ad placed more prominently than that first exact match, imho. I truly believe allowing ads in that placement (especially for anything other than an exact match) is unethical.
If I search for "Mastodon", I don't want to see "Truth Social" up top because they paid to rank above the Mastodon app. That's just slimy.
@cassidy I have said exactly that since Google moved the ads on their search results from where they belonged, in the right sidebar, to above the results.
I am quite sure that if they had to run it past the adsense approval team (of the day, anyway) they would have been told they would be banned if they did it (lol!)
@cassidy I think ads are unethical in general, if I don't want to see something it's just annoying but if I am constantly bombarded with profitable offerings of all kinds even if there are better alternatives that's not going to lead to good chage in this world to say the least!
@cassidy I mean, it might just be all the beer talking rn but I feel like the concept that people can buy attention is basically impossible to do right, sure there are cases where people advertise cool stuff to the right crowd but I don't see how that could ever be the norm. You are certainly right tho, the current buisness model behind it all is fucked up byond repair even in most cases without data driven targeting!
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