Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Post by _carbyau_ » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #239

Jskewel wrote: post #122

Adsense has been a nightmare for us. They have been putting thousands of scam adverts on our website for some time. Think "you have been looking at xxx and must pay a $100 fine" type popup nonsense. Hosted on the following websites: azurestaticapps.net azurewebsites.net herokuapp.com ondigitalocean.app digitaloceanspaces.com netlify.app Google doesn't allow you to block these domains, because they consider them "TLDs…

I suppose the obvious question is: Are you actively profiting from Adsense? If yes, then ... you are profiting from ... that shite. You must be OK with that and it does sound like you are actively complicit with it, despite your protestations. If you really think that Adsense is awful and might damage your brand then dump it and don't whine on HN! OK, that's probably a bit unfair because you are dealing with a monopo…

Post by BLKNSLVR » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

unethical_ban wrote: post #125

HomeDeLaPot wrote: post #107

Every YouTube ad I see now is an AI-generated scam ad hawking everything from free electricity to anti-aging products to birdhouses hand-carved by an AI-generated senior citizen. I've seen some multiple times, days or weeks apart. Their advertising standards are a complete joke.

I use adblock and on my TV, Youtube Premium. I loaded a stock web browser on VPN and checked Youtube looking for ads. Holy shit, it's all scams. Sample size of three, but not a single ad was a known company or a decent product.

Post by Marsymars » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

tanepiper wrote: post #64

codygman wrote: post #59

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Use an adblocker? That's what I do and why I don't even know what brooklinen is.

The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)

Post by thfuran » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #220

antonymoose wrote: post #173

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Liability is kind of wild and the fact that “the internet” washes it all away is wilder still. In my state, which perhaps takes liability too far in the other direction, if I serve sober you a single beer, you proceed to visit a second bar, have ten shots of tequila in an hour, and kill a man driving home - I share equal liability as the tequila bar. Perhaps there is a middle ground in this world where a firm that ma…

(Premise: it isn't 'alcohol and drugs'; it is 'drugs'. Alcohol is a drug, and while we are at it: a powerful one.) The reason for that is that you've been serving a hard drug to a customer. Don't do that if you cannot bear the responsibility (liability). In order to bear the liability, the price has to go up, including perhaps a safe escort home of the drug user, but of course that would be too expensive/socialist/au…

Post by VinnyBarreca » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC