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How to reduce the display frequency of unpleasant ads in 3 steps
From about 2 years ago, I often asked an acquaintance to read the article you are writing on your smartphone. When I browsed the site, I was offended by the thumbnails of the dirty horn plugs on my nose, which were full of unpleasant advertisements."
I didn't have a smartphone at the time, so I browsed the site in question on my computer, but at the time I didn't see any particular ads, and I honestly don't remember what it was about. be.
However, recently, when browsing the Internet on a personal computer, a storm of unpleasant advertisements of this kind appears.
I finally understand why an acquaintance made me feel uncomfortable before. Now, whether it's on your computer or your smartphone, eerie and disgusting beauty ads are hitting us almost daily.
It's disgusting to think that there are companies that choose only images that are full of malice, such as the stains on your disgusted face, or the color of your teeth that look like a disgusting toilet. .
Furthermore, along with the unpleasant image, a message such as "The person himself would never say such a thing" is displayed as a statement by a well-known entertainer.
This is going to be a big problem! I'm frustrated, and I'm clicking "hide this ad" all the time, but it's nothing.
A thumbnail like "It should have stopped before this?"
Therefore, this time, I would like to introduce a method to prevent such advertisements from being displayed as much as possible. I think there are quite a few people who have already taken countermeasures, but if you haven't taken any countermeasures, please refer to it.
Browsing comfortably online is a long time ago. It's getting harder and harder to get an ad-free, stress-free environment outside of paid subscriptions.
Nowadays, depending on the website, there are more than a few unbeautiful structures where ads are placed on the top, bottom, left, and right, making it impossible to understand the essence of the site at all.
Those are usually reprinted summary sites, but just looking at them makes me feel dizzy.
Among them, after all, unpleasant beauty ads are simply something that no one wants to see. There are many other things you can do to prevent this ad from appearing, and I'd like to talk about that for a moment.
If you search Google Ad Manager Help, you will find the item "Hide ads on Google's partner sites".
Here are some tips and tricks for hiding annoying ads.
In it, there is also a detailed explanation about "Hide this ad", and it is explained that by using this function (so-called mute), the user will be able to finely control the ad. .
Probably many users select "Inappropriate ad" or "I saw this ad many times" as the reason for hiding, and then mute.
It's slow and hard to deal with, but by doing this, you can mute the ad for the time being.
However, it's not uncommon to see the same ad, even though it's supposed to be hidden.
As for the reason why such a situation occurs, there are multiple reasons in the help, and one example is introduced, so I would like to quote it.
It explains that it is possible that the offensive advertisement was displayed again for such a reason.
Although there is an item "user deleted cookies", I don't think there are many people who intentionally delete cookies.
Even if you delete it separately, it doesn't have a big impact, but it's a hassle because you have to re-enter passwords for frequently used cloud services.
What's more, if the advertisements that you have set to hide are revived with this, ordinary Internet users will think that they do not want to delete them even more frequently.
So it's just one possible reason why the same ad keeps appearing, but the third is "the advertiser is using a different company name to show the same ad." Isn't this a big possibility?
Every time I see an unpleasant ad like this, I struggle with hiding settings and at the same time I try to carefully check only the publisher, but the same ad but a different company name, There are quite a few patterns where there is no indication of where the advertisement is.
If you click on a company name, you'll know it, but once you click on it, the ad will appear more frequently, which is annoying.
In addition, in categories like "recommended for you", there are images of ugly and fat people's stomachs, images with square plugs sticking out of their noses, and even 800 false words like "Ito family's tricks". Lined up.
Why is this recommended?
In, even though the images and headlines of advertisements have an unpleasant presence, the important company name is displayed in small and thin letters like "(PR) Co., Ltd.", which is also annoying. stands.
When things like this continue, a point that's pretty easy to overlook is that "users selected 'ads are intrusive' and reported a problem with the placement of the ad, not the content of the ad."
Recently, when reporting ads, "Ads are intrusive" is no longer an option, and "Ads obscure content" is displayed instead.
When reporting an offensive ad, there are several options, such as "I've seen this ad many times" or "The ad is inappropriate", but one of them is "The ad hides the content". There should be some people who choose.
However, in this case, it would be a blind spot to be treated as a report on the position of the ad. You will continue to see things you don't want to see because the placement of the ad will be reported as intrusive. When reporting, please do not select "ads are intrusive" or "ads hide content".
Why should I bother with so many annoying ads?
In the first place, it's a terrible time to be told that it's "recommended for you" and be shown unpleasant beauty advertisements on a daily basis.
It's like, "Who's going to click that stuff?" It's hard to be recognized as a user who recommends something like that.
However, if you're seeing ads tailored to your persona, you can at least turn this around a bit.
Please check the "Customize Ads" section of your Google Ads settings.
There are tons of additional genres that are considered relevant ads for users. In my case, there is even a genre called "diapers and potty training", and since I have no children and am single, I couldn't help but laugh. Are you perhaps predicting the future?
Probably, there should be a considerable number of things that are confusing to anyone who checks them, saying, "I'm not interested in this kind of thing."
Among such genre groups, it seems that "face and body care" and "beauty/fitness" are the hotbeds of beauty advertisements that are currently disliked by many.
If these are built into your customizations, I'd like to remove them from the settings. Clicking on an item and selecting "Turn Off" removes that item from customization.
Once turned off elements can be found at the bottom of Ad Customization.
To be honest, there are many items that I am not interested in at all, so it would be nice to turn off elements that I thought were unnecessary.
So, this time, I introduced three steps on how to make it harder for unpleasant ads to be displayed.
However, doing these things doesn't mean you can't see all those ads, unfortunately.
Sometimes there are types of ads where you don't have the option to report the ad, and in that case you're literally stuck...
It's frustrating, but it should be one resistance not to Google search for words that can trigger offensive ads and not bring in related ads.
In this day and age, when you search for insurance products on the Internet, you will see insurance products from various companies appearing in advertisements for a while. The same can be true for beauty ads, so it's also important not to search for words that may be associated with offensive ads, such as "yellowing teeth."
Of course, there may be some people who are not neglecting such constant attention, but still feel resentment that ``the unpleasant things have not disappeared at all''.
Personally, I feel that the "advertisement customization" in the previous section has been successful to some extent as a countermeasure, but it is difficult to reflect it just after setting it, so it is important to see the situation for a while.
It's really hard not to be able to eradicate it, but for the time being, please take the measures introduced here!
The best thing is that the people who are doing the ads realize that no one wants to see those ads.
Text / Mizore Matsumoto
[Reference]
Google Ad Manager Help "Hiding ads on Google's partner sites"
https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/2695260?hl=en
Google Ads Settings "Customize Ads"
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
