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Something I find astounding are all these pseudo-medical ads in Google Adsense and YouTube. How can they even let them through?

by ElFitz 3y ago

nobody9999 3y ago
>How can they even let them through? The ad buy checks/credit card charges don't bounce? Don't forget who is the customer in those transactions. Alphabet is an advertising company, not a search engine or video library. Their goal is to maximize revenue, so if someone is willing to pay, why would they refuse to take the money?
- ElFitz 3y ago
  Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in. Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so.
  - nobody9999 3y ago
    >Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in. >Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so. Sorry for the late reply. By all means report the advertisers and Google to the authorities wherever you are. I certainly wouldn't be upset of some (or all) of those folks went to jail. In fact, I think it would quite nice. I use an ad blocker so I don't see such things. As such, if you do please, by all means, involve the authorities.
scarface_74 3y ago
Why is anyone on HN seeing Adsense ads? Why aren’t you running an ad blocker?
- ElFitz 3y ago
  Because I’ve spent the last 18 months implementing marketing integrations and continuously playing around with settings just to be able to read some documentation got old after a week. But perhaps that’s why Google lets this harmful crap fester on their ad platforms. Perhaps they simply aren’t aware of it because everyone there runs an ad blocker. This would somehow be comforting, compared to the alternative.

Something I find astounding are all these pseudo-medical ads in Google Adsense and YouTube. How can they even let them through?

by ElFitz 3y ago

Something I find astounding are all these pseudo-medical ads in Google Adsense and YouTube. How can they even let them through?

nobody9999 3y ago

>How can they even let them through? The ad buy checks/credit card charges don't bounce? Don't forget who is the customer in those transactions. Alphabet is an advertising company, not a search engine or video library. Their goal is to maximize revenue, so if someone is willing to pay, why would they refuse to take the money?

ElFitz 3y ago
Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in. Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so.
- nobody9999 3y ago
  >Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in. >Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so. Sorry for the late reply. By all means report the advertisers and Google to the authorities wherever you are. I certainly wouldn't be upset of some (or all) of those folks went to jail. In fact, I think it would quite nice. I use an ad blocker so I don't see such things. As such, if you do please, by all means, involve the authorities.

scarface_74 3y ago

Why is anyone on HN seeing Adsense ads? Why aren’t you running an ad blocker?

ElFitz 3y ago
Because I’ve spent the last 18 months implementing marketing integrations and continuously playing around with settings just to be able to read some documentation got old after a week. But perhaps that’s why Google lets this harmful crap fester on their ad platforms. Perhaps they simply aren’t aware of it because everyone there runs an ad blocker. This would somehow be comforting, compared to the alternative.