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> We started disabling Google ads that lead to sites with UwS downloads. Google still has a long way to go on that front. A good place to start would be making
by jimrandomh 11y ago
> We started disabling Google ads that lead to sites with UwS downloads.
Google still has a long way to go on that front. A good place to start would be making sure Google's ads always have the option to report them, which currently they mostly don't. I recently came across one of these as a text ad on YouTube, it was quite obviously intended to mislead and give people UwS, and decided to try to report it.
There was no way to do it on the page. There was no way to do it elsewhere, at least that I could find through googling. I eventually reported it to the security team, on a form intended for reporting vulnerabilities, as "whatever malicious-ad-filtering you have can't be working at all if it let this through".