I know they allow scam adverts because it’s easy money, but why aren’t they held responsible for facilitating obvious scams? You open Edge, there’s 3 “Earn money quick” adverts. On Instagram, every 5 ads, one is a scam.

  • @[email protected]
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    681 year ago

    Uhhh maybe they should find the time to do that then? How is “we don’t have the time” a valid excuse? Either hire more staff to do so, or sell fewer ads.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      Unfortunately that would disproportionately impact small local businesses far more than large corporations.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Because you know who General Electric is and it’s easy to verify they’re actually advertising with you and that they’re a legitimate company, Jim-Bob’s Auto Repair, not so much.

          • blazera
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            91 year ago

            Oh yeah i see auto repair scam adverts all the time…?

            Wait no, im seeing goddamn miracle cures for aging on youtube. Old guy literally saying itll make you 20 years old again.

            • AstralJaeger
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              11 year ago

              Woudl you like to buy Doctor Binsemanns Bevertail extract? It cures cancer, aids, std’s, headaches, stupid and much much more! Its even cheaper than insulin! Only $59.99 per 50ml

              You mean like that? Been there, seen that, I know why I pay for kagi and YT Premium and have adblockers everywhere else.

        • Provoked Gamer
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          11 year ago

          Spending more money on more staff for checking the validity of advertisements can affect small businesses more because they have less money.

          • blazera
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            41 year ago

            You got turned around somewhere, we’re talking about small businesses advertising through major platforms like google. Theres no “small business” online advertising platforms

            • Provoked Gamer
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              11 year ago

              Ahh ok. I guess I kinda got lost in the thread somewhere. Thanks for letting me know. Ignore my previous comment.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I haven’t and likely can’t think of a good solution to handling the scenarios you’re talking about. They are good questions that someone smarter than me should address. However, to use those scenarios to completely admonish advertising platforms for blatantly obvious scams is asinine. “Well, what if a legitimate business starts scamming people?” should have little relevancy to the question of “Should we accept this ad from a user advertising that they’re going to double your money if you give them access to your financial accounts?”

        I’m not saying it’s simple or quick to solve, but there is very obvious low-hanging fruit that could be dealt with but is somehow not because these platforms aren’t held accountable whatsoever. It has to start somewhere.

      • blazera
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        121 year ago

        or the laws require them to.

        I believe thats whats being suggested

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        While also complaining its not fair when we protect ourselves from the business they won’t protect us from e.g. ad blockers.

        Google going so far to invent “Web drm” to ensure we have no choice but allow them to serve us malicious ads that the won’t filer themselves

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        1 year ago

        And then they complain when we tell them that we want to overthrow capitalism.

        It’s giving „you have to accept being harmed because otherwise my business can’t turn a profit“

        Fuk yo business then, don give a shit about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Absolutely. There is an exchange of money involved in the advertising services, so it would be natural to expect a small fee for sanity-checking the advertisement. Facebook are mostly able to check for nudity, porn or gore in the advertisement, so with some additional inspection, it should be possible to weed out a lot of scams.

    • sadreality
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      21 year ago

      Well, it hurts the holy profit… also, you sound like a fucking communist!

    • @AdverseAffects
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      -11 year ago

      Did you take the seconds to read the comment you’re replying to?