> The sad fact is that there still seem to be more than enough utterly braindead marks on the Internet that fall for these scams and thus make the spam campaign

> The sad fact is that there still seem to be more than enough utterly braindead marks on the Internet that fall for these scams and thus make the spam campaigns, scare ads and other crap "worth the effort". And that despite the size of Google, modern advancements in technology such as large processing power, AI and LLMs, all the tracking and anti-abuse mechanisms (that often misfire and ban legitimate accounts with no recourse), this shit still manages to get through while being super obvious. We used to filter this crap out on forums back in the good old days with much more primitive tools (regexes and basic keyword matching + queuing for moderator's manual approval), but Google wants us to believe they can't while in reality they just don't care because they're not liable, have a monopoly and those spammers still contribute towards "engagement".