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Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences (checkmyads.org)

submitted 10 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Google is spoon-feeding fake “Shark Tank approved” weight loss gummy candies to innocent people — and making money doing it.

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[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Sort of a non-solution for the wider problem isn’t it?

Honestly, I was wondering what people here are talking about. uBO is so effective that you don't notice either its presence or the ads it blocks. uBO might be a real effective solution for the problems you mention - until enough people use and start hurting Google's revenue. Even if it does, uBO is a necessary defense since Google ads are obnoxious and potentially harmful.