Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”
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Fake error messages, phishing, and other annoyances will soon be heavily penalized.
...Google is promising to punish sites that offer what the company calls "abusive experiences." Chrome 71, due for release in December, will blacklist sites that are repeat offenders and suppress all advertising on those sites.
The behaviors deemed abusive cover a range of user-hostile things, such as ads that masquerade as system error messages, ads with fake close boxes that actually activate an ad when clicked, phishing, and malware. In general, if an ad is particularly misleading, destructive, or intrusive, it runs the risk of being deemed abusive....
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@mlnews said in Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”:
Fake error messages, phishing, and other annoyances will soon be heavily penalized.
...Google is promising to punish sites that offer what the company calls "abusive experiences." Chrome 71, due for release in December, will blacklist sites that are repeat offenders and suppress all advertising on those sites.
The behaviors deemed abusive cover a range of user-hostile things, such as ads that masquerade as system error messages, ads with fake close boxes that actually activate an ad when clicked, phishing, and malware. In general, if an ad is particularly misleading, destructive, or intrusive, it runs the risk of being deemed abusive....
Good.
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Yeah, this is a nice step.
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So chrome is finally starting to catch up with the level of ad blocking I've had for years.
