On: Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows t...

[valianteffort]

I was shocked the last time I used Google without an adblocker. The first 4-5 search results were ads. I had to scroll to get to the first actual result. There also seems to be less effort to distinguish ads from regular links.

I wonder which genius adsense manager thought "hey we could double our revenue if we show 4 ads instead of 2, user experience be damned".

[bombcar → valianteffort]

I find it darkly amusing that the first five ad results are usually the same as the first five “natural” results. Which I click on depends on if if I hate them more than google.

[ProjectArcturis → bombcar]

Lol yup! "Should I make this company pay 25 cents to Google?"

[otikik → valianteffort]

> There also seems to be less effort to distinguish ads from regular links

That is a good thing, isn't it?

[otikik → otikik]

I misunderstood.

Obviously the “effort” is in the opposite direction