Anthropic is terrible too. I couldn’t rectify my spending versus my usage. Automated assistant shows me where things are that I am already asking about. Gets escalated and person doesn’t respond to my question. Back to automated with multiple requests to escalate before they will do it
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
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Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#62I made an update, but I'll post also here in comments.
It seems that either a human read it or it triggered some trigger, but my account has been reinstated. Thank you, also those who made this issue visible.
On one side I'm happy it happened, on the other, it's a shame that it took complaining on the internet amplified by HackerNews to get this problem fixed...
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried to remove a not-anoymore-existing company I had a business profile before from Google Maps. I was close to giving up, it's such a complicated process that is fully intransparent. Kudos for you for trying 4 times.
The lesson here is: don’t do free work for corporations.
I don't even fill out surveys anymore for the most part, unless it gets me a discount or something.
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#64That’s surprising, because in my opinion Google doesn’t care about malicious anything. The other day I had to look for something on YouTube on my dad’s computer with a disabled ad-blocker. I saw like 30 ads in 15 minutes, every single one of them was a scam, literally not a single non-fraudulent ad. Google is full cartoon villain evil at this point.
As long as it makes them money, they're incapable of caring.
Make them liable for what they show, and watch them suddenly discover they are able to care a lot.
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#65So you are guy whose weired and malicious ad destroyed my system
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#66Interestingly how everyone is talking about 'Google', this faceless entity.. but in essence there are humans who work there, employees not doing their job properly. Lazy, detached, disinterested .. with no consequences for coasting.. Or are badly organized/managed, have the wrong incentives, are burned out, going through a divorce, performance review, whatever.. People are people, life happens, job happens, but unfor…
They made over one hundred billion dollars last year. Seems like by and large they're doing their jobs pretty well.
Oh, you expected them to care about users? Lol, lmao even.
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#67The real question is why you would spend money to advertise to probably the most advertising adverse, and ad-bloc literate, demographic?
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#68Interestingly how everyone is talking about 'Google', this faceless entity.. but in essence there are humans who work there, employees not doing their job properly. Lazy, detached, disinterested .. with no consequences for coasting.. Or are badly organized/managed, have the wrong incentives, are burned out, going through a divorce, performance review, whatever.. People are people, life happens, job happens, but unfor…
More likely, overworked and underpaid. Some employee in $farOffLand working 10 hour shifts for $4/hr with a quota^W target of appeals-per-hour to meet.
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#69Interestingly how everyone is talking about 'Google', this faceless entity.. but in essence there are humans who work there, employees not doing their job properly. Lazy, detached, disinterested .. with no consequences for coasting.. Or are badly organized/managed, have the wrong incentives, are burned out, going through a divorce, performance review, whatever.. People are people, life happens, job happens, but unfor…
No, the business controlling side has decided that it's ok to have scams as ads as long as that makes money.
Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
#70Google is the worst offender, but a lot of companies are increasingly hiding themselves behind a wall of automated systems to completely neuter users ability to challenge any decision unilaterally taken by the them. The LLM-age has worsen the situation but it started well before it. At some point it may be necessary to add the requirement for large companies to have a both human contact point and perhaps a requiremen…
It’s a strategy. Ask RyanAir. They systematically shut down any way to communicate with them, except lawsuits. Tried their chatbot, hotline, email, letter, fax, small claims court (I’m not joking they don’t even care about that). Unless you turn up with a court order and confiscate a plane, they simply won’t give a fuck, and I’m sure it’s a tactic to deter 99% of their problems before they start
Same with Amazon Japan. It blocked my account with no way to contact them, never used again.