rayon@lemm.ee to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1273arrow-down1external-linkGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comrayon@lemm.ee to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarebluGill@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year 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-squareIzzyDatalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year 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.