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Yes, I can use a programmatic ad exchange such a Google’s to push ads on a site that would result in a negative experience for visitors. The creative review pro
by DevKoala 6y ago
Yes, I can use a programmatic ad exchange such a Google’s to push ads on a site that would result in a negative experience for visitors. The creative review process is pretty lax. I haven’t heard of a documented attack, but it would be easy to grief a small site in such a way.
- thatguy0900 6y agoI remember an old blog that was trolled by having homoerotic ads plastered all over it, but looking into the details now they just bribed the server master.
- luckylion 6y agoThere have been several waves of attacks where somebody posted malicious ads via Adsense that would use JS to redirect visitors to a different page. In the cases I was involved with, they were only targeting mobile traffic and redirected to a scam-site that asked users to download an app to fix a virus etc. We've reported it, never heard back from Google. It went away after a few days each time, and hasn't happened in two or three years, at least not to any site I'm involved with.
- thatguy0900 6y agoCrazy something like that was even allowed to continue for a few days
- luckylion 6y agoMy guess is that they ran it on smaller sites only and targeted those. In my case, it was a "entertainment news"-site that pulled in about 3-5k visitors/day back then - enough to get a lot of victims seeing your ad but not enough that they'd have a direct line to Google or have their own IT people.