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>>taubek+(OP)
Make ad brokers share responsibility for losses due to scam ads. If the ad broker is unable to clearly identify the advertiser for lawsuit purposes, the ad broker should face consequences. They're assisting the criminal by helping them hide.

>>Animat+vd
Maybe I’m naive here, but aren’t the vast majority of ads brokered by Meta and Google these days? Am I thinking too high level?

>>sircas+SD
Google and Meta seem to have no idea what's going on within their own advertising networks.

Similarly to all the stories (with two currently in the front page of HN, eBay and PayPal) about algorithms that are just insufficient for the range of realistic scenarios these companies must deal with on a regular basis.

It's merely the equation of profit outweighing customer service. Admittedly, they're working on a scale that's difficult to comprehend, but that shouldn't absolve them of aiding and abetting criminal use of their systems.

Google's and Meta's profit motives are the base cause of this continuing escalation of the ubiquity and user-hostility (to put it mildly) of internet advertising.

It's only been predictable for the last 20 years...

https://youtu.be/YlGklt4BSQ8 (first aired in March 2000)

https://youtu.be/XPGgTy5YJ-g (April 1999)