Some Google ads forced the company to ban some of them for “stalkerware” apps, which can be bought and downloaded by anyone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents, who want to use them to monitor their child’s activities with the…
A fake ad campaign serving a trojanized version of the AnyDesk program ranked higher in searches than the legitimate ads. The ads which appeared in the Google Search results came with a a fake version of the remote desktop app. Although this was a trojanized version, the…
Digital ads brought Google and Meta under the magnifying glass of both the European Commission and the UK’s Market Authority. They investigate if a deal between the two giants distorted competition in the digital ad business.
Antitrust investigation for digital…
Google bans Russian state-owned media outlets from getting ads-generated money. The decision would apply on its search engine and video platform, YouTube.
Google bans Russia Today
According to Alphabet, Google decided to stop Russia Today from receiving money for…
Scam
ads still appear on Google and Facebook,
although an important number of victims reported them. According to
Which?, the consumer watchdog in the United Kingdom, the platforms
failed to remove them.
A third of the scam ads are still online
Both giants said…
Google’s reasons to show ads all the time when we are online seems to be stronger than ever. Alphabet, Google parent company announced record revenues for the second quarter since the pandemic started. The amount is as large as $56.9bn, out of which $46bn came from its…
Google will track users who
watch video ads on YouTube for a longer time, in order to see if they
convert even after seeing a promotion.
The
search giant announced
that it would bring a new
way to correlate conversions with video ads. And this would count
even those…
The new Chrome ad blocker that comes with version 85 is meant to save Google’s browser and its ads. The new feature surprised all the users and the industry, too.
But it’s, in fact, the way Google tries to save its browser and help its ads system bring more…
In an article published by Scott Spencer,
Google promises to stop bad ads. Scott Spencer, Vice President of
Product Management, Ads Privacy and Safety said that this commitment
is especially important now.
A task force for COVID-19
During the COVID-19 outbreak…
Bitdefender revealed more than a dozen Google Play apps bombard users with annoying ads. According to the company, 17 apps used different strategies to deliver irritating ads. Still, they appear to be legitimate apps.
Among the ads, which have more than half a million…
