Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by jacquesm on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:56PM
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Googles classification algorithms are shit. They mark spam as ham, ham as spam, block good accounts and promote fraudulent ones. It's ridiculous the amount of trust we place in this company.
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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by realusername on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:56PM
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That's on point, I just got my Google Ads account banned for no reason and support is non-existent of course. Google just doesn't know how to deal with fraud at all.
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by Drakar1903 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:29AM
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There's a criminal fiction book to be written here. Disgruntled Google employee ends up playing both sides, as the man supplying the classification algorithms and also selling 'backdoors' to it. Only a rogue loose cannon dev ops can stop him.
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by dhimes on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:30PM
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It's not really trust. It's really that there is no alternative, and the laws are such that they have no accountability.
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by Aachen on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:25PM
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Most google products have alternatives. The ones with a network effect (where you need Google servers even if you have an open source client) are Youtube and the Play store (I can't get most content from either in any other way, most companies don't give apks for download), but the rest is replaceable or has open source variants (ungoogled chromium and AOSP for example).
I do agree on the accountability part. When I can't take part in normal life without a certain product, it governs people's lives and they should be held to similar standards as other governing bodies.