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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported
A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to Google doesn’t mean the ad, or the domain behind it, stops running. The tool is called AdLens, and it comes out of a study that mined Google’s Ads Transparency Center, a…
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