Why aren't advertisers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) held responsible for allowing scammy adverts? - eviltoast

I know they allow scam adverts because it’s easy money, but why aren’t they held responsible for facilitating obvious scams? You open Edge, there’s 3 “Earn money quick” adverts. On Instagram, every 5 ads, one is a scam.

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    1 year ago

    While also complaining its not fair when we protect ourselves from the business they won’t protect us from e.g. ad blockers.

    Google going so far to invent “Web drm” to ensure we have no choice but allow them to serve us malicious ads that the won’t filer themselves