Ads on Ubuntu Docs pages distract users from actual documentation

[Bryan Quigley]

The advertisements on Ubuntu Docs pages are incredibly distracting and provide mostly links to help users get Firefox from unofficial sources for Windows!

This is likely the case for many other search terms as well.

When a user is having trouble we should not be displaying any ads (unless in very rare cases they could help - I have found no examples of this).

Search for anything here: https://help.ubuntu.com/

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

The isn't much we can do about it. We use a third party (Google) search engine, and it comes at the cost of what you end up seeing, some ads.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

We are monetizing this traffic right?

If so, I believe we should be able block some of the worst offenders at least.

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

I don't think we do monetize it, but am not sure. We just call google.

[John Kim (kotux)]

Another solution is to run adblock plus on your browser. Marking this as invalid because fixing this would be beyond our control.