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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by jimrandomh on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:33PM (#11482819)
It's really weird that Google isn't dealing with them. Maybe they're geotargeting everywhere-but-Mountain-View or something? Malware ads on AdSense are neither uncommon nor subtle, but Google's acting like they're not there.
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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by vox_mollis on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:51PM (#11482963)
It's really weird that Google isn't dealing with them

It's never "weird" for a company to choose not to attack its own revenue base.

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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by dmihal on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @05:53PM (#11483903)
Except Google knows that low-quality ads are driving people to ad-blockers
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Re:Google will warn users when sites contain social engineer... by spiderfarmer on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:56AM (#11486277)
Exactly. Adsense had this problem in the Netherlands and it turned a lot of my visitors to ad blockers, even though advertising on my website was meant to be subtle.
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