rayon@lemm.ee to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 11 months agoGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comrayon@lemm.ee to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarebluGill@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 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-squareIzzy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoAds are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIt rapidly grew and became bad so yes.
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.