This action will make suffer both content creators and advertisers at their expense. Therefore, this problem is now being looked into by Google, who plans to streamline the advert categories while baking an ad-blocker into Chrome by early next year. There were rumors about this development that the search giant was planning to debut a built-in ad blocker with an upcoming Chrome update.
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Google has today announced that it has joined the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group dedicated to improving online ads. It will apply adverts it will pass or block based on the standard guidelines defined by this organization. That depicts that the search giant is looking to eliminate pop-ups, auto-playing videos with sound, and other large persistent banners from Chrome.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior VP, Ads and Commerce at Google told, speaking about improved ad support in Chrome that Chrome has always focused on giving you the best possible experience in browsing the web. For example, it prevents pop-ups in new tabs based as they are annoying for the user. In communicating with the Coalition and other industry groups, we plan to have Chrome stop showing ads which will also include those ads that are owned or served by Google itself, on websites that are not compliant with the Better Ads Standards starting in early 2018.
Google isn’t making a plan to fully remove ads from being accessible on its widely popular browser offering, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The report further mentions that Chrome will introduce built-in advertising filters to better the overall browsing experience for its users. It may be probable that Google will expand on its existing toolset to prevent excessive pop-ups from surfacing on-screen while also warning users if they’re exposed to any harmful content.
Moreover, it has been suggested that Google has already started reaching out to publishers to make them aware of the changes which are in store, so they do not get sudden surprises when their payouts or ads get blocked. There is currently no information on what guideline updates the search giant is planning to introduce.
Reports, however, suggest that it will offer content creators a new tool to flag ads that may run afoul to its ad filters — coming early in 2018. Google has announced its recent collaboration with the Coalition for Better Ads. It will be interesting to see Google’s own approach to ad-blocking, especially when it is also the search giant’s primary revenue source.
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