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Do you block ads on Google's products?
by onewaystreet 11y ago
Do you block ads on Google's products?
- anon1385 11y agoGoogle ad networks frequently display ads that are designed to trick you into installing malware. That is true for both the text only Adwords ads you get in search results [1], and the display ads Google runs on other sites[2]. For many years Adwords was probably the biggest risk to people setting up a new computer and wanting to download things like Firefox. When supposedly the best and most responsible sector of the online advertising market was prepared to profit from malware distribution for years then it's no wonder the entire industry has a reputation in the gutter. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870479