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Not to defend Google but this has been against Ad Words terms for as long as I can remember. It’s surprising they found a way to evade auto detection for this.

• kevincox 4y ago
  > against Ad Words terms Oh great, they'll get their account closed and need to make another one to continue scamming people. How about Google fixes this by displaying the URL that the ad actually goes to? Of course they don't want to do this because the URL with all of the tracking parameters looks ugly and it would hurt conversion rates. $$$ > user safety.
  • jansommer 4y ago
    It's kind of crazy when they could just extract the domain name, or provide options for how much of the url you want (domain? subdomain? path? ...)
  • yazzku 4y ago
    But then it's not AMP!
• matheusmoreira 4y ago
  Terms is just a document Google uses to absolve itself of all responsibility. Look! On this document nobody really reads it says we don't allow this. See? Not our fault that our advertising platform linked you to malware or to scam websites. The proper response is of course to ignore their excuses and block all advertising unconditionally.