Dan GoodinLess than a week after a highly convincing Google-hosted malvertising campaign finally got taken down, the same folks are right back at it.
My post from last week:
Thanks to @jeromesegura
Johnny B. 𓅇 (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] there's also vlc.de which was for a long time the top result on google.de. This site has been running for years and distributes a repackaged "Plus"-Version of vlc. I'll give you three guesses about what that "Plus" is...
It's a shame tech companies can't be held legally liable for the malicious ads they host. If they could be sued for malvertising violations à la Google, they would have figured this problem out a decade ago.
And ideally, damages could be trebled for chronic or repeated violations.
Bill@dangoodin It's the same law that provides @jerry protection from me posting my bullshit though.
Farce Majeure@Sempf @dangoodin @jerry does it though? Google is literally paying for clickthroughs on this, aren't they?
@vathpela @dangoodin @jerry That is an EXCELLENT point. I do not know the answer to that. Is Jen Granick around these parts?
Ian Douglas Scott@dangoodin I wonder how much of their revenue comes from malicious and illegal advertisements of one form or another.
If they face no penalty and get to keep the money from such advertisers, they are actively incentivized to allow it. As long as it doesn't seem to drive people away from their services. Or drive away other advertisers.
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED@dangoodin we built a solid tech for that in 2011 but Google ventures sold our thing to twitter before we could properly spread it around.
Joe ❌👑@dangoodin My understanding was that section 230 protects a platform, or the owner of a fediverse instance, from liability for something an end user posts. It isn't clear whether that applies to ads, when a platform is paid to promote something and is pushing it at people who didn't ask for it. But IANAL, so maybe it does.
Roger A. Grimes@dangoodin Sadly, when the tainted money enriches "good" companies, they tend to be poor defenders and at the very least, very, very slow to respond.
Johnny B. 𓅇@dangoodin @jeromesegura there's also vlc.de which was for a long time the top result on google.de. This site has been running for years and distributes a repackaged "Plus"-Version of vlc.
I'll give you three guesses about what that "Plus" is...
I'll give you three guesses about what that "Plus" is...