Google and Facebook are both competing for "worst thing to happen to the internet" and they are always neck and neck, but Google just takes the cake today.
They're experimenting with ads that look like article thumbnails and open as popovers that generate content in the style of your website suggesting it was written as a sponsored article.
Oh, and it's on automatically by default under a setting called "native ads"
WHAT THE FUCK GOOGLE
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2024-07-11 19:51:22
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