I think google is crumbling under the weight of their size. They are no longer able to process the requested commercials with due diligence.
I think google is crumbling under the weight of their size. They are no longer able to process the requested commercials with due diligence.
Nah, they just don't give a fuck. Never have
I see the same scam/deepfake ad(s) pretty much persistently. Maybe they actually differ slightly (they are AI gen mostly), but it's pretty obvious what they are, and I'm sure they get flagged a lot.
They just need to introduce a basic deposit to post ads, and you lose it if you put up a scam ad. Would soon pay for the staff needed to police it, and prevent scammers from bypassing admin by trivially creating new accounts.
That's probably a good idea. They can also earn interest on the deposit. (Not that they need the money).
I used to flag obvious scam adverts. A bunch of times I'd even get an email response a few weeks later saying it was taken down. But then I'd see it again (maybe slightly different or by a "different" advertiser, who knows). Its whack-a-mole.
The reality is that google profits from scam adverts, so they don't proactively do anything about it and hide behind the "at our scale, we can't effectively do anything about it" argument. Which is complete horseshit because if you can't prevent obvious scams on your platform, you don't deserve to have a platform. Google doesn't have to be running at their scale. "We would make less money" is not a valid excuse. We'd all make more money if we could ignore laws and let people be scammed or taken advantage of.
There's plenty of ways they could solve it, but they choose not to. IMHO this should be a criminal offence and google executives should be harshly punished. Its also why I have a rather negative view of googlers, since they wilfully perpetuate this stuff by working on adtech while nothing is being done about the normal everyday people getting scammed each day. Its only getting worse with AI, but I've been seeing it for years.
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Did they ever? They used to only allow text ads, which reduced malware compared to serving random JavaScript. But did they ever vet the ad's content?
> They are no longer able to process the requested commercials with due diligence
no longer able? or no longer willing to, because it impacts their bottom line?
They can afford to hire thousands of people to swiftly identify scams and take punitive action. And pay them well.
They can, but as long as regulators let them get away with it, they will just pocket the money instead. Google are, imho, an evil company.
Use their Recaptcha to let users identify scam ads instead of cars and traffic lights.