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Re:Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site tha... by mschuster91 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @09:46AM (#37942837)
So what? If Google is only profitable because the vast externalized costs to it are borne by society at large (e.g. malvertising, scams, unsafe "medical" products and supplements, competitors placing ads in an unfair way [1]), then maybe prices for advertising have to rise to match the prevention cost, or Google has to figure out other ways of staying profitable. I don't care all that much.

And if it leads to less, but higher quality ads in the end, even better.

[1] https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht...

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Re:Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site tha... by DannyBee on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:28AM (#37943386)
The so what is that the comment is completely and totally wrong in it's estimation of how simple or not it would be.

That is all.

We should decide what to do about it based on correct data and sane assumptions, not random assertions that are off by orders of magnitude and backed by no data.

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