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 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 public database Google built to satisfy transparency … More → The post Scareware ads keep running on Google’