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Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by alkonaut on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:08PM (#11035363)
Any blockning of "malverts" should arguably just emulate view so it costs the advertiser even more than the lost view. If Google don't want to do that themselves (which would be understandable) they could likely expose it in APIs so plugins like ad blockers can do it.
Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by enzanki_ars on Thursday February 04, 2016 @01:39PM (#11036122)
Why not block it at the source instead? Prevent these types of ads from being submitted to AdSense in the first place.
Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by onion2k on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:44PM (#11035642)
Google can't do that. It'd be fraud.
Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by gherkin0 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:04PM (#11037988)
I don't think it would be fraud if they did it to ads from non-Google networks. But yeah, they shouldn't fake views on ads that come from their own networks.