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> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair Google doesn't exactly care about
by htrp 4y ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
Google doesn't exactly care about this because they still get paid for the click. The malware companies are willing to bid extremely high for that single click (since they end up pwning your computer).
- toss1 4y agoThat'll work just fine until they trash their reputation with carp like this. Then, no one will use them, and they will have a hard time getting it back; they may still exist, but only as a husk of their former stature.
- acdha 4y agoYou’re not wrong but the manager making that call will have retired rich by then.
- toss1 4y agoYup, highly likely. But this is why someone in the executive or CxO suite must be on top of flagging potentially existential issues like this and getting on top of it — instantly. If it were my company, I'd be temporarily pulling down all ads not from a known previously-vetted source (e.g., the major agencies of publicly listed US companies), setting up an emergency team to develop some recognition technology, then opening it back up again with very strong surveillance. But yeah, likely the execs there will just say 'it won't collapse that fast, and I'll be off on sunnier beaches then...