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Corridor Digital: Google/Facebook profit by ignoring copyright violations in ads
- Nextgrid 6y agoCopyright violations is just one of many things they'll ignore. Pseudoscience, unsubstantiated medical claims, malware or outright scams. I haven't seen ads in almost a decade myself but looking at what's currently happening (some nice examples on this subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/ https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/) it seems to have become worse than I remember. Worse, some of these are on platforms like YouTube which are frequently visited by kids and I wouldn't be surprised if some are actually targeted at kids as they might be more likely to fall for a scam if you promise some in-game currency from a popular game. We need proper regulation for this and have the advertising platform be held liable for wrongdoings of the advertised service/product. Promote a fraud or scam? You are considered complicit of that crime and will be ordered to pay up. That'll force the platforms to better vet the ads they serve if they want to stay in business.