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Why do Google ads point to adware? (jakepoz.com)
7 points by jakepoz on Feb 21, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and Android) are immune to this adware. It would be financially irresponsible for them to waste money helping a competitor.

>If Google wants to help make the web a better place...

I imagine Google thinks it is making the web a better place by investing in the web, not fighting loosing battles trying to fix old and broken platforms.


If users decide that it's not safe to click on ads, and start blocking or looking out for them en masse, Google has a problem.




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