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> This is only a problem because ad-serving companies don't vet their customers. Make ad companies legally and financially responsible when they serve malware a
by Kalium 12y ago
> This is only a problem because ad-serving companies don't vet their customers. Make ad companies legally and financially responsible when they serve malware ads, and the free market will then stop the problem.
No. Then you will destroy those companies in the US and everyone will use foreign-run companies not so bound.
- Animats 12y agoYou think people in the US are going to switch from Google and Facebook to Baidu and Tencent?
- Kalium 12y agoOnce your policy goes into effect and Google/Facebook either collapse or get out the ad network business entirely? Yeah. I think that publishers will look abroad for networks who can pay out.
- nitrogen 12y agoI think the parent comment's point was that site owners will switch to other ad networks if the other networks pay better rates due to the types of content they host that Googlebook won't.
- srean 12y agoI seem to have missed the memo claiming poor old Google/Facebook are entirely reliant on malware ad business to stay barely afloat. Could you please point me to a believable source that says this.
- Kalium 12y agoI'm not claiming that, though that's what the MPAA believes. Really, I think the costs and liabilities of what was proposed would do it all on their own. It would substantially increase costs for advertisers and decrease payouts for publishers. Once an ad network does that, it's going to start bleeding from both ends. At which point some operation in who-knows-where can do better for everyone.