Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by halflings on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:42PM (#22353271)

This article is from 2015: https://adage.com/article/digital/inside-google-s-secret-war...

"If advertisers believed the company's operation were fraud-filled, they could take their money elsewhere and the business would falter."

That's it, in a nutshell.

(and if they had 100 people working on this in 2015; you better believe that number is much higher now)

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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by mirimir on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:09AM (#22353854)

> This article is from 2015 ...

Maybe Google had more competition in 2015.

Although I find even that difficult to take seriously.

Where else would they "take their money"? Facebook? I doubt that Facebook ads show up in web searches.

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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by owl57 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:56AM (#22355282)

A lot of people probably see more Facebook ads than Google ones. And Facebook knows a lot about users, probably including some things that Google knows less reliably. The relevant problem is, do they seem any less scummy?

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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by skrebbel on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:12AM (#22353873)

> elsewhere

And where would that be, exactly?

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