Saturday, November 3rd, 2018

darkoshi: (Default)
I recently came across this message on the accuweather website:
Please allow ads to display for AccuWeather.com, and help us keep our weather news free.
- Allow ads on AccuWeather.com
- Buy an ad removal pass


The ad removal pass is managed by Google Contributor. The main URL redirects to "https://contributor.google.com/v/beta", which indicates it is still in beta mode, even though the current version has been available since June 2017.

From the website:

Each time you visit a page without ads, a per-page fee is deducted from your pass to pay the creators of the website, after a small portion is kept by Google to cover the cost of running the service. The price per page is set by the creator of the site. [Currently one cent per page, for the accuweather site.]

When you visit a site that you have added to your Contributor pass all of the ads will be removed.
It even plays nicely with other browser extensions.

You load your pass with $5. When your balance drops below $1 it will top-up by $5 automatically.

How Contributor works

After you add a website to your Contributor pass, ads are removed whenever you access that site while signed in to your Google account from your browsers and devices.

You can apply your ad removal pass to additional participating sites at any time.



Sites that use Contributor - not very many, so far.

I like the idea of being able to support sites in an easy per-page manner like that, even if I don't visit them very often. But I don't like that it would require staying logged into a Google account.
darkoshi: (Default)
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/09/information-operations-update/

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/removing-bad-actors-on-facebook/

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/more-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior/

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-takedown/


https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-twitter-troll-farm-archives-8d5dd61c486b

https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-facebook-uncovers-iranian-influence-operation-d21c73cd71be

https://longreads.com/2018/09/04/inauthentic-behavior/


Trying to think of what tag should I use for this topic. "Inauthentic behavior" seems too vague.
It's not always "misinformation". It's not always foreign governments doing it. It's attempting to manipulate people via social media, but that could apply to advertising too. Deceptive... misrepresenting your origin and purpose...

I think I will rename my "fake news" tag to "misinformation".

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