Google will warn users when sites contain social engineering ads

Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by JohnTHaller on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:02PM (#11482521)

I see fake download buttons, full screen ads, ads opening new windows/tabs, and ads opening Google play automatically from Adsense on a regular basis. I gave up reporting them years ago.

I only see them when using chrome on Android these days. I generally use Firefox with an ad blocker on both windows and Android to combat it. I disable on some sites to support them, donate where I can, subscribe to YouTube red/Google music, etc to be sure I support content.

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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by kbenson on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:45PM (#11482913)

> ads opening Google play automatically from Adsense

Are you sure they are ads, and not the site redirecting you based on your useragent? I've had some sites that have apps do that, but I've never had an add automatically direct me to the Play store before.

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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by JohnTHaller on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:32PM (#11483316)

It debuted when Google added the ability to do direct link ads to Google Play. And it's been on larger sites that use Google AdSense to fill excess inventory.

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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by spiderfarmer on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:55AM (#11486266)

Yes. I ran into this problem with one of my websites. Turns out, a lot of websites in NL were having the same problem. I guess it's coming through one of the thousands of other advertising networks that are using the Adsense auction.

It's still happening now and then, so Google is fixing the problem in the wrong place.

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