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Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by 63stack »

WarmWash wrote: post #133
bogwog wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> doesn't make business sense to put a lot of resources into cleaning up ads that pay google nothing If we lived in a sane world, Google would be held accountable for every scam they advertise. It doesn't matter if you think someone deserved to get scammed for using an ad blocker, because they never would have been scammed if Google didn't choose to put them in danger for the sake of profit. "But they can't possibly…

If we lived in a sane world, people would simply pay for what they use. Then we could avoid all this confusion, and google would have large (monetary) incentive to protect it's customers.

>If we lived in a sane world, people would simply pay for what they use

This is some proper, indoctrinated, corporate bootlicker mentality.

95% of the phones on the market will spy on you, send your data back to the mothership, and they will sell your data to 3rd parties, and they cost $1400-$2000. You pay for the phone which is not even yours after the purchase, and then you still get ads, spied on, and your data sold. Google has a very large monetary incentive already to protect their customers and they do jack shit about the malware/adware in the play store.

TVs are even worse. LG TVs were just found to spy on you and nearby devices while they are off. Do you think those TVs are free? No, they also cost a fortune.

The current state of the world is that even if you pay you will get ads, spying, and malware. Get your head out of your ass.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by blitzar »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google 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 att…

??? must have a better social credit score than 1970-01-01

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by tomhow »

tryauuum wrote: post #158
OptionX wrote: post #10

Google 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…

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Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by alt227 »

Lammy wrote: post #233
1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google 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 att…

Why would you help build Google's place-database moat for them for free?

Exactly. I hate the fact they gamified answering questions on Google maps to help keep their system updated for free.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by GetSMS »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google 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 att…

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Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by 72deluxe »

Retr0id wrote: post #102
StilesCrisis wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you can win in small claims if the other party doesn't show. I suspect a plane might exceed the "small claims" limit though!

€890 is apparently enough https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/13/bailiffs-bo...

Pity it still departed for London after the notice had been affixed.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by Good4boothee »

drew870mitchell wrote: post #169
1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google 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 att…

Yeah, a while back Google Maps sent out a cheerful "here's all you've contributed" email and i clicked through and found my complete history. It was a graveyard of rejected edits for things like closed streets, wrong business hours, and spam listings (IDK the payoff for the spammers but there's an ongoing cluster of fake hotels and businesses near my old apartment). Seeing the total record of incorrect stuff that i h…

Endless stream of "Your review was removed - place was closed down" is a interesting reward for reviewing places. I still wonder how can a beach just stop existing.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by 72deluxe »

hnlmorg wrote: post #49
Toutouxc wrote: post #25

That’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.

I went through a phase of reporting scams and every single time my report was rejected. I guess I shouldn’t have expected any differently when their income is dependent on displaying those scam ads.

Same here. Seems they love AI-generated nonsense ads!

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by Good4boothee »

bogwog wrote: post #106
WarmWash wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The more you ad-block and tracker block, the more scammy the ads when you take down the guards. People who never do any sort of blocking are the most valuable ad-targets, and hence get the highest bids when their views are auctioned. They get Toyota, Coke, and Downy ads. Scam advertisers are bottom feeders and the "advertiser of last resort". Google doesn't really care that much about people with blank profiles, and…

> doesn't make business sense to put a lot of resources into cleaning up ads that pay google nothing If we lived in a sane world, Google would be held accountable for every scam they advertise. It doesn't matter if you think someone deserved to get scammed for using an ad blocker, because they never would have been scammed if Google didn't choose to put them in danger for the sake of profit. "But they can't possibly…

> "But they can't possibly review every ad before publishing" they say.

That defense doesn't work either way as they (and Facebook) also reject manual reports from users.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by Eisenstein »

carlosjobim wrote: post #157
WarmWash wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we lived in a sane world, people would simply pay for what they use. Then we could avoid all this confusion, and google would have large (monetary) incentive to protect it's customers.

Google and Meta are entirely within their rights to make YouTube, Search, Facebook and Instagram into paid services for all users. Nobody is forcing them to advertise or to participate in criminal fraud with scam ads. They are heading pretty steadfastly into multi billion dollar lawsuits the way they are going.

Multi-billion dollar lawsuits aren't such a disincentive when they are making hundreds of billions in profit every year.
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