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I'm no expert, but this question seems similar to: "How is it that telecom companies cannot stop spam robo calls?" The answer is: they can, but they have a fin
by interroboink 3y ago
I'm no expert, but this question seems similar to: "How is it that telecom companies cannot stop spam robo calls?"
The answer is: they can, but they have a financial incentive not to.
Surely somebody pays for those ads. If Facebook makes money from it, why should they prevent it?
Obviously it's bad for customers, so Facebook balances user outrage against the money they're making. I could see that calculus working out to be "a decent amount of outrage is acceptable."
So here you are, outraged (:
- mschuster91 3y ago> Surely somebody pays for those ads. If Facebook makes money off of it, why should they prevent it? People running ads impersonating pretty large brands can lead to very significant risk for Facebook.
- Fischgericht 3y agoSure, I understand some advertising networks don't care about scams in general. After all, ads for "the blue pill" are everywhere. But in this case we are taking about posting a direct link to a virus download. I would assume that THIS would be enough for FB to do something about it...