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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

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Post by acomjean »

cwillu wrote: post #387
acomjean wrote: post #312

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I get those. To be fair they're asking for you to pay for some of the storage you are using for free. They have some tools to help clean up, but not enough... They'll keep nagging. I mean apple music/tv/icloud are always pinging me with "free 3 month subscriptions". MS is no better with the "lets finish setting up your pc with one drive..." to which the options are [yes/ remind me again later] I've moved mostly to li…

I do pay, for more than what I need. I have 40gb free of 200gb, and my usage patterns have changed such that I will never fill the remainder up.

Huh. For me it was start nagging aggressively at 90% full, but if I deleted enough it kept the nags at bay for a while.

In some ways the non smart nags are ok with me. We have food ording app in Boston called toast. They decided to get reviews for food orders and time those requests pretty much perfectly after your done eating. It’s weird and somewhat fascinating how they do that.

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Post by pampas »

mmndaniel wrote: post #408
pampas wrote: post #379

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As a publisher it really sucks. The DSPs must know these ads are shit. It would be trivial to filter them with a bit of AI. I've asked my Google partnered SSP to disallow ethically bankrupt ads like gambling, alcohol etc. They say "we've asked the partners to block those categories"... and then it just keeps happening. They're either unable or unwilling to help. I had to take ads down for several days at my own expen…

Don't you use ad quality solution? why?

Yes, Confiant

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Post by GU_AI »

Scoundreller wrote: post #335
j027 wrote: post #317

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Wow I am surprised to see this. I created a tool that automatically follows ads to try to find scams. But that was usually reserved to typosquat domain ads or ads on porn websites. I didn't know scammers used normal page ads too. I know tech support scams used to use google search ads, but I don't think they do that as much anymore, so maybe they have moved onto things like adsense. These scammers usually do IP addre…

> These scammers usually do IP address checks to check for residential IP before showing the scam, and some also do some basic fingerprinting checks, so that is how they get past detection. Same issue with spam sms in my country: I think they geo-locate it so submitting the link to safe browsing project takes way too long

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Post by kulahan »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #251
kulahan wrote: post #246

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“AdSense has got to go” should include OP’s use if they truly believe that. That’s what the person you’re responding to is saying.

"Had to go". Past tense. It's not ambiguous. The only correct interpretation of that sentence is they did get rid of it.

Ah shit, that one word does change the whole meaning of the sentence. Well, at least we brought attention to it over the course of four comments instead of this just being the first response lol

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Post by erros »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #117
erros wrote: post #111

Money. They make so much money from malvertisement that it doesn't make sense to remediate them. It's corporate greed and they've known about this since the 2010s, various campaigns have sprung up and have caused untold X amount of dollars in damages in breaches, and nothing changes. I've heard at least one FBI agent who had investigated cases related to malvertisement put Google up there with some of the worst ad ne…

This is it. The truth is Google's largest revenue sources are scams, fraud, and malware, and they wouldn't be in business without them. They're not going to remove all of their highest pay per click customers because it might harm society or something. Just try to convince Google to remove "MapsQuest Driving Directions", a browser hijacking extension advertiser who clearly impersonates one of Google's competitors: It…

So true!

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Post by zahlman »

icoder wrote: post #123
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'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.

They got back to you? I never got any response after repeatedly flagging that implausibly fast and cheap, "German engineered" 32TB external drive.

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Post by ople »

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…

Oh wow, I am just setting up a new site with the plan on recouping part of the modest running costs with Adsense ads but this is making me reconsider.

Are there any solid, preferably European, alternatives for a site that doesn't really have any traffic yet but a fairly decent growth potential in 3-6 months timeframe?

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Post by chadgpt2 »

torginus wrote: post #189
martin_a wrote: post #46

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> so they would rather have people report them I have reported so many of those dodgy, scammy, sexualized ads on YouTube, that YouTube/Google has removed the option to report advertisements from my account. They don't care as long as they're getting paid and there's no immediate liability for them.

The funny thing is it used to be that people warned you not to go to dodgy sites as they were full of ads that were trying to steal your money or online identity. It was mostly just scaremongering, but it never hurt to be careful. Nowadays, Google will serve you those exact ads if you go to any major news outlet.

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Post by chadgpt5 »

torginus wrote: post #189
martin_a wrote: post #46

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> so they would rather have people report them I have reported so many of those dodgy, scammy, sexualized ads on YouTube, that YouTube/Google has removed the option to report advertisements from my account. They don't care as long as they're getting paid and there's no immediate liability for them.

The funny thing is it used to be that people warned you not to go to dodgy sites as they were full of ads that were trying to steal your money or online identity. It was mostly just scaremongering, but it never hurt to be careful. Nowadays, Google will serve you those exact ads if you go to any major news outlet.

Google was serving the ads on the dodgy sites. Nothing changed.
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