“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint”

Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by BLKNSLVR on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:03AM (#34924040)

But that's only part of it. Google will also happily serve up ads for fake bank websites that will steal your credentials. Google will happily serve up ads for a lot of malicious content on the Internet.

Google are not only making it worse because of advertising, they're making it worse by facilitating scammers and fraudsters and various other criminals.

All because their systems are so automated as to eschew any review that might actually make advertising on the Internet slightly less distasteful (and maybe the FBI wouldn't be recommending the choking off of Google's primary income stream)

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Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by theshrike79 on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:26AM (#34924243)

Yep, but try to put Google ads on a page with naked or scantily dressed people, you'll get banned real fast. =)

Stealing and impersonation good, sex bad.

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Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by input_sh on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:37AM (#34926410)

I don't think sex bad is a Google problem as much the US problem. After all, it's not just ads and it's not just Google.

People in the US have this puritanical view on sex -> it is inherited by Silicon Valley -> it gets forced onto the rest of us.

Since the rest of us are forced to rely on US-based products in some capacity (app stores, payment processors, CDNs...), you can't make anything sex-related even in places where sex work is viewed far more openly than in the US.

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Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by HarryHirsch on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:32AM (#34926320)

Let me correct that for you - the systems are automated to provide plausible deniability, just like with the recent Hertz scandal. As soon as you admit there may be a problem with the automation the door is cracked open to admit a lawsuit in. It's the equivalent of "computer says", and the legal system is greased to permit such abuse.

The US doesn't have a smalltime corruption problem, you don't bribe your local cop, it has a bigmoney corruption problem as seen (again) here.

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