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I 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.
by thatguy0900 6y ago
I 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.