Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: technology rayon ( @gammarays@lemm.ee ) Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 1 year ago message-square15fedilinkarrow-up1161
arrow-up1161external-linkGoogle-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuinearstechnica.com rayon ( @gammarays@lemm.ee ) Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 1 year ago message-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: technology
minus-square bluGill ( @bluGill@kbin.social ) linkfedilink9•1 year agoThey have failed one of their code jobs: validating advertisements are legitimate. I don’t know why any legitimate company would advertise with google as you get associated with the scams they allow on their ad platform.
minus-square Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoAds are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
minus-square Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) linkfedilink3•1 year agoIt rapidly grew and became bad so yes.
Tl;dr google is a cancer
They have failed one of their code jobs: validating advertisements are legitimate. I don’t know why any legitimate company would advertise with google as you get associated with the scams they allow on their ad platform.
Ads are cancer. Google by being a company that makes most of its money from ads is cancer by extension.
It rapidly grew and became bad so yes.