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The key is that Google's business model is not built on people that are behaving illegally. Google would obviously still exist if rehab scammers and other bad a
by bllguo 9y ago
The key is that Google's business model is not built on people that are behaving illegally. Google would obviously still exist if rehab scammers and other bad actors didn't. Given this, I find your call for Google to reassess its business model a weak one.
People just want short-term, feel-good solutions. Google monitoring for shady rehab ads is exactly that. It's a kneejerk reaction that doesn't solve the real issues. These centers will still exist and inevitably ads will slip through the cracks. This is a failure of society and law enforcement that just happens to be most visible thru Google.
- anonacct37 9y ago> Google would obviously still exist if rehab scammers and other bad actors didn't. It's not obvious to me that google, in it's current insanely profitable form, would exist. As someone who has worked in ad-tech I think you might be underestimating how much of their money comes from rehab scammers, predatory lenders, get rich quick scams, weight loss scams, etc. Unfortunately I can't publish the numbers even if I still had them, but as an engineer looking through logs and building our tracking system I remember our biggest clients and who was paying us $400/lead. These companies are key business partners of google/facebook. They write the checks. I'm not advocating going after google as a short term solution to a failure in law enforcement. I'm advocating holding them responsible as a business partner to share in whatever consequences our law enforcement system deems appropriate.