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>the Bing ad shows the domain as `google.com There's a reason for this - ad tracking for conversion, performance or even to make sure the advertising network i
by vezycash 8y ago
>the Bing ad shows the domain as `google.com
There's a reason for this - ad tracking for conversion, performance or even to make sure the advertising network is honest. The ad tracking domain is not always the same as destination domain.
AFAIK, this problem seems easily solved.
All Ms has to do is flag ads whose displayed URL do not match the final URL for manual review. Or simply ban it.
- larkeith 8y agoThis does not excuse displaying false information, especially when that information misleads users into downloading malware.
- greglindahl 8y agoBing and Google have always paid a lot of attention to the "landing page" for search ads, and they have a lot of technology to make sure that the landing page for an ad doesn't change after they've reviewed it. Still, fraudsters have ways of changing the landing page to something different. In this case someone seems to have successfully convinced bing that the landing page domain is google.com -- it's unlikely that it's "easily solved". Or that the next one will be easily solved.
- Sephr 8y ago> All Ms has to do is flag ads whose displayed URL do not match the final URL for manual review. Or simply ban it. The ad did match the final URL, it just selectively redirected to the legitimate or malicious page based on user agent. See https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1055751684146655232?s=19 https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1055751684146655232?s=19