Google treats its customers so blindly. in short, Google is not user centric company at all.
You should take your ad viewing elsewhere in protest.
Yep. Straight to the pie hole.
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
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#12Maybe Google have detectors of some sites that are mostly vibe-coded also being associated with AI slop. Also why use Google Ads in the first place? Given that HNers and technical users are extremely allergic to that?
Detectors can clearly identify the exact issues. So, what are those issues here? We know, but we don't want to tell our cash-paying customers.
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#13Maybe Google have detectors of some sites that are mostly vibe-coded also being associated with AI slop. Also why use Google Ads in the first place? Given that HNers and technical users are extremely allergic to that?
Because the proportion of "HNers and technical users" in the general population is vanishingly small.
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#14Google has forgotten the plot. A quick tangent story follows: I attempted to add a Tesla Supercharger as it went live to Google Maps. I was the very first to pay to recharge at the new location. The process went something like this:
1st time: Uploaded 4 photos, local business info, current charger prices, and GPS coordinates. Google replied this would be sent to human review. It was rejected within 6 minutes.
2nd attempt: Uploaded 6 more photos, including shots of local business hours and info, and current prices. Rejected in 6 minutes.
3rd time: One photo of a new charger, no description. Rejected in 6 minutes.
4th time: Appended all above details to local business info. It went live within a minute.
5 days later: Supercharger location was added by ??? and included no info at all and the pinpoint was off by 100m.
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#15Maybe Google have detectors of some sites that are mostly vibe-coded also being associated with AI slop. Also why use Google Ads in the first place? Given that HNers and technical users are extremely allergic to that?
Because the proportion of "HNers and technical users" in the general population is vanishingly small.
> RACE is a native macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust.
Pretty sure they are not targeting the general population with this product.
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#16We had that, almost a decade ago.
The cause was that the site was in fact compromised and at a certain very discreet URL it hosted a bunch of pages for legit products that linked to external shady sites. They got in through some PHP hole. Got lucky they didn't do more damage. However as per various Google pages and dashboards no issues were present except being tagged as a malware distribution site.
The remedy was to audit the site, clean it up and then re-submit the appeal. Got the tag cleared in a couple hours.
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#17Maybe Google have detectors of some sites that are mostly vibe-coded also being associated with AI slop. Also why use Google Ads in the first place? Given that HNers and technical users are extremely allergic to that?
Because the proportion of "HNers and technical users" in the general population is vanishingly small.
Except that his product is for technical users as well as HNers here? I won't expect the "general population" that use Google to care about this software.
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#18Behavior like Google's monopolistic behavior here in turn enables other monopolies - if distributing your own software puts you at risk of being arbitrarily banned by advertisers, deranked in search, blocked by virus scanners, etc without recourse, you're going to end up leaning on app stores like Steam, Google Play, etc because they have a shortcut through all the red tape.
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#19I really wonder about these youtube ads for these (non-existing, AI slop) incel games... it's always the same pattern, a man is exploited and/or rejected by a woman who gets everything for free he has taken from him, is spat on and whatnot, then starts his quest to fight the demoness or whatever. Are there any articles about those and the companies behind them?
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#20Had the same issue. In the end, getting pulled into some Google Ads sales funnel and them solving the issue through internal tickets helped. Spent $1000 on useless ads in the process, but have an "unlocked" account now. Really disappointing customer experience.