Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still see fake download button ads distributed via Google’s own ad infrastructure to this day. I even reported a few that were taken down.

  For all the AI prowess Google likes to brag about, why can’t they make a simple “does this look like a download button?” detector? The scams are not that clever, most of them follow one of a small number of specific patterns.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Malicious ad money is ad money

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  • noisypine@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not that they can’t, its that they won’t.

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why should they? They would lose money if they did that

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