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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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Post by ipsod »

Citizen_Lame wrote: post #144
alfalfasprout wrote: post #109

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very HN take. Reality is 3.8 flash is good at what it does (being fast + cheap)... but that market is becoming very saturated and google is not competing at all at the frontier where major spend lies.

So just ignore the reality, that Gemini (and yes even 3.8 Flash) is worst of all major LLMs across most metrics? But that's fine, because reasons?

It's ridiculously fast, and generally very good with real-world knowledge. It's my go-to for anything non-coding, and for quick fixes/questions/prototypes.

If metrics measured what most people need from an LLM, it's competitive, IMO, and with their TPU chips, it's probably economically competitive.

Re: Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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mcintyre1994 wrote: post #409
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'm curious why Google wouldn't want to block those domains. I find it hard to imagine any site that would be using only one of those domains and would be legitimate to purchase from. I understand people having blogs etc on a domain like that, and obviously development stuff, but nothing with purchase intent.

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mrweasel wrote: post #403
qaq wrote: post #354

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Google Cloud revenue grew 82% year-over-year I am guessing they gonna survive fine

It's still "only" 10-15% of Googles total revenue and less than 10% of it's profits. It's not nothing, but it's also not nearly as important as the dodgy ads business. https://fortune.com/2026/04/29/google-earnings-cloud-ai/

dodgy ads business is not growing at 80% yoy

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Post by Frieren »

account42 wrote: post #418
Frieren wrote: post #389

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Google is part of a cartel of ad companies. Most websites do not have any option left. To blame small companies for choosing big tech monopolies is unfair and solves nothing. Strong regulations and splitting monopolies are the real solutions here. And if Google breaks the law someone from the company needs to go to prison, too. Knowingly helping criminals is a crime itself.

You don't have to make it your business model to sell people's attention to those wanting to manipulate them.

When everybody is giving their product for free to compete with a paid product is almost impossible.

But I agree that it should not be like that and that governments around the world should regulate all these "free" services.

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Post by godwinson__4-8 »

nkrisc wrote: post #392
godwinson__4-8 wrote: post #273

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I'm so happy someone else has seen the Jewish billionaire's wife ad it's so weird and no one I know IRL has seen it and if you try to describe to someone in person you sound insane.

Makes wonder what kind of absolute batshit crazies it’s supposed to be targeting?

I think it's often "medical" cures.

I believe the Jewish billionaire's wife's secret was to "longevity".

I think the target is the elderly. My understanding is they have always been a frequent target of these sort of internet scams.

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Post by thinkthatover »

Borealid wrote: post #160
icoder wrote: post #123

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I've flagged an AI-generated add once that promoted a small device that could cool a hot room (many degrees celcius lower, very quickly, for very little energy and very little money and without external components), defying the laws of thermodynamics. They said they investigated it and concluded it did not break any rules and no actions where taken.

There do exist "evaporative coolers", sometimes called "swamp coolers". The trick is that they require water and raise the humidity of their surroundings. But they tick all the boxes you listed - plenty of delta-t, extremely low power, no external tubes or parts. It's not magic because it relies on the "fuel" of cool water to evaporate.

also known as an olla pot!
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