> It makes me wonder if all the phishing and spam I'm reporting even does anything. I'm usually first in line to hate on Google, but I report a lot of phishing

> It makes me wonder if all the phishing and spam I'm reporting even does anything. I'm usually first in line to hate on Google, but I report a lot of phishing to them and, at least when it comes to phishing sites being hosted by Google, they tend to take them down pretty quickly. I never get a response, and I assume that it's all automated, but it's a lot better than many other hosts. If you report a malicious website to namecheap it can remain online for months and, bad as they are, they aren't even the worst out there in terms of poor abuse handling. Google could do better, but they're really pretty good. That said, this is just another example of why we should all be blocking ads. It keeps us all safer.