<story><title>No More Deceptive Download Buttons</title><url>https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-more-deceptive-download-buttons.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Firstly, this will work on ad networks other than Google, so it&amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;s more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense. This is good.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and arguably more importantly, the way to stop these adverts is for them to cost the advertiser (in either money or time) without giving them the reward of revenue. If the ads stop working then people won&amp;#x27;t have a reason to make them. By stopping the ads in AdSense rogue advertisers would just change to a different ad network. The problem wouldn&amp;#x27;t stop.&lt;p&gt;This is a good move by Google.</text></item><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices.&lt;p&gt;Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they should be implementing it at source on the advertisers (malvertisers). Instead they are pushing this down to the publishers and hitting them with penalties.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a clever ploy in some ways - Google gets the revenue from the ads and also the kudos from Joe Public for &amp;quot;being on the side of the consumer&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalkin</author><text>&amp;quot;more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;... as long as you don&amp;#x27;t care about browsers which don&amp;#x27;t run Google&amp;#x27;s Safe Browsing service.&lt;p&gt;You know another way to stop these ads? Make available an advertising network which doesn&amp;#x27;t serve them. Website owners who don&amp;#x27;t want to install malware on their users&amp;#x27; computers - which is probably most of us - would prefer that network to the others. As-is, with even Google&amp;#x27;s network serving up malicious ads, the choice for a website that wants to run display ads appears to be either build out a sales team &amp;amp; manage inventory itself, or accept that some percentage of its users will get scammed.</text></comment>
<story><title>No More Deceptive Download Buttons</title><url>https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-more-deceptive-download-buttons.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Firstly, this will work on ad networks other than Google, so it&amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;s more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense. This is good.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and arguably more importantly, the way to stop these adverts is for them to cost the advertiser (in either money or time) without giving them the reward of revenue. If the ads stop working then people won&amp;#x27;t have a reason to make them. By stopping the ads in AdSense rogue advertisers would just change to a different ad network. The problem wouldn&amp;#x27;t stop.&lt;p&gt;This is a good move by Google.</text></item><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices.&lt;p&gt;Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they should be implementing it at source on the advertisers (malvertisers). Instead they are pushing this down to the publishers and hitting them with penalties.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a clever ploy in some ways - Google gets the revenue from the ads and also the kudos from Joe Public for &amp;quot;being on the side of the consumer&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clinta</author><text>This does not make any sense. Advertisers paying per view do not get charged for a view if crome prevents the user from viewing the page.&lt;p&gt;The good news here is we now have official admission by google that allowing adsense ads without filtering is dangerous. And those of us who do not have sophisticated techniques that can detect deceptive ads have no choice to but to block the entire network serving them, if we want to be secure.</text></comment>