For Fark's sake! Fark fury follows 5-week ad ban for 5-year-old story

Image is one click away

on the linked blog post

as Golcd states the link is there to the image, but it is also not in the their article, it is in the comments.

I am surprised El-Reg is not prepared to put its name on the line and publish the image.

e.g. in this scenario when the child was not in clothes and most definitely under age.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/09/facebook_cant_tell_diff_child_abuse_war_photos/

Your standards are more flexible than a willow in a tornado Reg .....

Re: Google's AI

"Have you ever seen their targeted ads?"

Of course not, that's what adblockers are for.

Mind you, Google are the world leaders in ad-slinging, so presumably the competition is even worse.

Re: Google's AI is simply shit.

As are they all when it comes to ads. I regularly am showed adverts for razors. Razors from Amazon, razors delivered monthly by subscription, razors guaranteed to work longer than any other, you name it.

I wear a beard. There was a period some years ago when I went all "Color Sergeant Bourne" and had a full set, but the last time I shaved my face with a blade razor has to have been years ago. I don't recall browsing razor or shaving related sites recently. But something in my browser cache must've triggered team Gillette and Co.

I wonder if it was the Wollice and Grommit DVD I ordered?

Re: Time to get with the times.

I suggest "B Ark".

Re: Time to get with the times.

Ironic that the online Daily Mail can get away with pictures of the underage daughter of some minor celebrity in a bikini...

Re: Time to get with the times.

Also, please just apply "A ark" to each and every psychologist, humanity can do without those quacks.

Why pick on psychologists, most of whom have nothing to do with this sort of stuff? Pick on the lawyer who called a witness who was not qualified in the relevant field, and the judge who allowed that witness to take the stand. Psychologists don't do age evaluation from pictures, as should be obvious from their discipline. They do mental age evaluation from a battery of tests on the individual, which is a very different thing.

Unfortunately there are scientists and other professionals who claim competence outside their areas, but this is a general problem not limited to any one group.

Re: New Year's resolution @voland's left eye

> Yes, of course Googletm is too powerful. We've often observed that folk who just use the WWW without much thought about how it all works believe that Google is the Internet.

And before google, people thought the "little e" was the internet, and don't forget those for who AOL was the internet. People don't change, but the company which defines the "internet" for them does.

I am sure there may be people out there for whom "facebook" is the new "internet" as well *shudder*

Re: Welcome to the New World

I believe this is called "improving the customer experience."

SiriusXm

Got a new car with SiriusXm, but won't do the trial because the only way to stop the subscription is by phone. By mail is not allowed. They are very clear about that.

This reminded me of the good old days of AOL and Earthlink...

Re: Welcome to the New World

"Try calling <snip> just about any "service" these days."

No thanks, it always seems to go like this:

"Thank you for calling Megacorp,your call is important to us. Please press the appropriate number for the service you wish to use:"(switches to different voice)

"plerk berk srng dorf klep"

"Singe nerf terk twang blerk"

"Smerk nerb burble cleff nor"

"Perkle twik smok torb blin"

"Aper nerk tohn jurblly mergle plot"

"...."

(switches back to original voice after pause)

"You have not selected any number listed. We will now hang up."

"Fuck you for calling Megacorp."

I've had this exact same experience calling several different company's help lines.

I'm sure it's deliberate.

Re: Had a similar problem with the McAfee anti-virus people

Yep - also had a client with similar issue. In this case there was an infection on the site. For about three hours on a Sunday. I then ripped the site out and replaced with a clean backup.

Google, Norton, McAfee were flagging it as "bad". Google and Norton's systems were quick to clear, automated, involved putting a file on the site, and instant re-checks. Operated from a web form. Reputation sorted without 24 hours.

McAfee took six months!! Their spammy SiteAdvisor bar was the trouble here. That bit of malware that often gets installed with Adobe updates.

My client lost a lot of work in those months as too many people believe these scammy SiteAdvisor bars instead of the truth.

Re: This seems to be a trend with US mongrel monopolies

I fully agree. I would never work with a payment processor from outside the EU. Not only do you often have to fight with laws and regulations written to protect the companies instead of its consumers, you also have very little recourse if things go wrong. Good luck trying to find the money to take an American company to court on the other side of the planet.

Fortunately we have plenty of proper payment processors in the EU, Adyen, Paymill, Worldpay, Skrill and GoCardLess to name a few.

Re: Alternatives?

Good question. You'd think that by now someone would have jumped in that obvious gap in the market..

Re: Alternatives?

I use Amazon CPM ads, they do pay and you get a extra of people buy from you. I've found Amazon to be a less problem then Google, since Google is all about red tape that puts government to shame.

The only problem is that Amazon U.S pays with a check, not direct transfer and in Europe that is starting to be a big problem, since Europe is now busy phasing out anything connected to checks and the cost of getting them paid has gone up to the point it's not worth it to get small amounts (I got options at the moment, thankfully so I'm not depended on my Danish bank to get the check paid).

This is only Amazon U.S. Amazon Europe pay with a bank transfer, but they don't yet offer CPM advertisement and that is a problem.

Re: Do No Evil. Definition of Evil?

Last time I paid Google was just after they charged me clicks for ads that led to 4 pages that had not been viewed in over 3 months.

My complaint was rejected with "My logs were wrong". There is no way to appeal.

Yup, as discussed earlier, it appears that the default business model of larger US companies is to simply screw over the paying customer from every angle they can think of, and they get away with it because we have f-all ability to hold them to account. For the freeloaders (aka the product), doubly so.

If there is ONE single thing an intelligent government should do it is reducing their economic dependency on what happens in the US. It will take years, but at least it would not harm the rest of the world when they screw up again which is likely to happen with a depressing certainty.

Re: Missing the point

Also, no one has to do business with Google. People choose to run Adsense because they think they can get something for free for running ads off their network. Why? Why not provide some actual compelling content and do it trough an app and use subscriptions? No one forced fark to get in bed with Google, they did it on their own, and now they know what kind of problems that can bring. Get a different advert provider, or turn the fucking things off, since no one looks or click on that shit anyway. Ad supported content on the web is not all it's cracked up to be. If you depend on Google, try not to upset their cart. If you depend on having freedom, you need to provide that on your own, with your own resources.