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This is not some impossibly intractable algorithmic problem to solve. Simply actioning malware reports on the ad would be sufficient. If an ad receives hundreds
by deminature 4y ago
This is not some impossibly intractable algorithmic problem to solve. Simply actioning malware reports on the ad would be sufficient. If an ad receives hundreds of reports over the course of months, there's problem something wrong with it and should trigger a human review, at which point the malicious intent of the ad is obvious. Why include a report button on ads at all if its effectively a placebo button?
- shadowgovt 4y agoWhat is your evidence that the malware reports aren't being actioned? The malware continuing to appear isn't sufficient evidence. Malware moves hosts and ad accounts all the time. ETA: from the article itself, in 2021 Google "Removed over 3.4 billion ads, restricted over 5.7 billion ads and suspended over 5.6 million advertiser accounts." That's a ton of action, but AdWords alone also serves 29 billion ad impressions a day. It doesn't take more than a few bad actors slipping through the cracks to get seen (and at these orders of magnitude, "a few" is still "millions." Completely impractical for human hand-review).
- deminature 4y agoAnd yet despite these numbers, somehow the most prominent open source software is relentlessly impersonated and Google is the facilitator, FTA: https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1616497407390355456 https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1616497407390355456 It's clear this will never be prioritized without regulation as scammers money is as good as anyone else's and open source projects cannot afford to sue Google to force action.