Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Considering how prevalent scams and actively malicious ads are across ad services in general, having an ad blocker is just basic online safety at this point.
realharo@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Malicious ad money is ad money
noisypine@infosec.pub 11 months ago
It’s not that they can’t, its that they won’t.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 11 months ago
Why should they? They would lose money if they did that