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This is an underrated comment. Google are enabling fraud on a massive scale by permitting the hijacking of established names and brands. Often brands or names

This is an underrated comment. Google are enabling fraud on a massive scale by permitting the hijacking of established names and brands. Often brands or names that some small family company has worked for years to build a reputation for. We do indeed live in a world where tech and capitalism have birthed some sort of horrific offspring that’s choking us all.

fmajid 4y ago
To be fair, in this case it's more racketeering.
BLKNSLVR 4y ago
But that's only part of it. Google will also happily serve up ads for fake bank websites that will steal your credentials. Google will happily serve up ads for a lot of malicious content on the Internet. Google are not only making it worse because of advertising, they're making it worse by facilitating scammers and fraudsters and various other criminals. All because their systems are so automated as to eschew any review that might actually make advertising on the Internet slightly less distasteful (and maybe the FBI wouldn't be recommending the choking off of Google's primary income stream)
- theshrike79 4y ago
  Yep, but try to put Google ads on a page with naked or scantily dressed people, you'll get banned real fast. =) Stealing and impersonation good, sex bad.
  - input_sh 4y ago
    I don't think sex bad is a Google problem as much the US problem. After all, it's not just ads and it's not just Google. People in the US have this puritanical view on sex -> it is inherited by Silicon Valley -> it gets forced onto the rest of us. Since the rest of us are forced to rely on US-based products in some capacity (app stores, payment processors, CDNs...), you can't make anything sex-related even in places where sex work is viewed far more openly than in the US.
- HarryHirsch 4y ago
  Let me correct that for you - the systems are automated to provide plausible deniability, just like with the recent Hertz scandal. As soon as you admit there may be a problem with the automation the door is cracked open to admit a lawsuit in. It's the equivalent of "computer says", and the legal system is greased to permit such abuse. The US doesn't have a smalltime corruption problem, you don't bribe your local cop, it has a bigmoney corruption problem as seen (again) here.
bunnyswipe_com 4y ago
If we keep going down the capitalism route, We are going to end up with 10 'scammer' ad in the top 10 result, each and everyone fighting each other with more ad budget and lower profit margins. In the end, the website owner won't even need a website.
wil421 4y ago
You could replace Google with Amazon and the same thing is happening there with fake reviews and product takedowns.

fmajid 4y ago

To be fair, in this case it's more racketeering.

BLKNSLVR 4y ago

But that's only part of it. Google will also happily serve up ads for fake bank websites that will steal your credentials. Google will happily serve up ads for a lot of malicious content on the Internet. Google are not only making it worse because of advertising, they're making it worse by facilitating scammers and fraudsters and various other criminals. All because their systems are so automated as to eschew any review that might actually make advertising on the Internet slightly less distasteful (and maybe the FBI wouldn't be recommending the choking off of Google's primary income stream)

theshrike79 4y ago
Yep, but try to put Google ads on a page with naked or scantily dressed people, you'll get banned real fast. =) Stealing and impersonation good, sex bad.
- input_sh 4y ago
  I don't think sex bad is a Google problem as much the US problem. After all, it's not just ads and it's not just Google. People in the US have this puritanical view on sex -> it is inherited by Silicon Valley -> it gets forced onto the rest of us. Since the rest of us are forced to rely on US-based products in some capacity (app stores, payment processors, CDNs...), you can't make anything sex-related even in places where sex work is viewed far more openly than in the US.
HarryHirsch 4y ago
Let me correct that for you - the systems are automated to provide plausible deniability, just like with the recent Hertz scandal. As soon as you admit there may be a problem with the automation the door is cracked open to admit a lawsuit in. It's the equivalent of "computer says", and the legal system is greased to permit such abuse. The US doesn't have a smalltime corruption problem, you don't bribe your local cop, it has a bigmoney corruption problem as seen (again) here.

bunnyswipe_com 4y ago

If we keep going down the capitalism route, We are going to end up with 10 'scammer' ad in the top 10 result, each and everyone fighting each other with more ad budget and lower profit margins. In the end, the website owner won't even need a website.

wil421 4y ago

You could replace Google with Amazon and the same thing is happening there with fake reviews and product takedowns.