Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites
Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites
A new feature of the Google app on iOS injects links that go back to Google Search on third-party websites unless publishers opt out.
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Google introduced a new AdSense ad format earlier this year that works similarly, turning text on the webpage into an ad that opens in Google Search.
Weren't these super common scam websites a decade ago?
Yes but the difference is they were opting their readers in. Now Google is hijacking content without consent if the site owner.
Yep, but now that you have monopolies doing it, they can do whatever they want and abuse their position.
I remember downloading Age_of_Empires_FREE_CRACKED.exe and having 30 new toolbars and half of the content on every website highlighted.
Yeah but this is different.
Yeah, you don't get a game :(
Exactly!