rayon to Privacy GuidesEnglish • 9 months agoGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1279cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1279external-linkGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comrayon to Privacy GuidesEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarebluGilllinkfedilink11•9 months agoThey have failed one of their code jobs: validating advertisements are legitimate. I don’t know why any legitimate company would advertise with google as you get associated with the scams they allow on their ad platform.
minus-squareIzzylinkfedilinkEnglish7•9 months agoAds are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
Tl;dr google is a cancer
They have failed one of their code jobs: validating advertisements are legitimate. I don’t know why any legitimate company would advertise with google as you get associated with the scams they allow on their ad platform.
Ads are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
It rapidly grew and became bad so yes.