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A hope in vain: they most certainly have noticed, and they most certainly know that they profit.
by ptaipale 10y ago
A hope in vain: they most certainly have noticed, and they most certainly know that they profit.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoActually having been at Google and later at a search engine dealing with people trying to do these sorts of games, the FTC in particular is pretty active in this space as are the various states attorney generals. And there are liability issues which have been litigated several times, the biggest one I know of being the Canadian Pharmacy ads on Google, where fines are paid and the user experience is damaged. So I am pretty confident that they don't allow this stuff on purpose just for profits. I can believe they are slowly walking up the learning curve of how they can be defrauded, and it is slow. You have to train a lot of people. But it gets better. Now if I were in a leadership position in Facebook's advertising group this would be on my list of top priorities to get done.