Google ad scams!

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Why do google not screen the ads people put on this service? Right now I'm looking at an ad for a $5 Botox alternative descovered by someone's mother. It's a blatant scam created by criminals to con me out of my money. If I know this just by looking at it then why can't the google people? Are they really so stupid that they think iPads are given away for free, you can become a millionaire in a week by working for an hour a day and so on. You'd think that a company this big would care more about the companies they associate with. And it seems totally inappropriate to advertise these scams on a website for people with autism who are more vulnerable to this crap.

Ok rant over, that ones been building up for a while, I feel better now haha. Does anyone else get really annoyed by google's lazyness/greed for profit?

I agree, but i do not think google with do anything.

I have seen google ads for crazy s**t like "cure your adhd with hypnosis". If someone would pull that kind of s**t IRL in my country, they would have to get used to seeing the inside of a jailcell.

They're everywhere, and the more I see them, the more I ignore it.

I don't think it's illegal to sell crap that doesn't really work, or doesn't work well. It's only illegal if the people create it solely to con people out of money, not just sell something that doesn't work very well. It's like the difference between someone putting sealer on your driveway with low quality products that they know won't do any good and someone putting watered down grease on your driveway and telling you it's sealer. I could see you a jar of regular $2 skin lotion with chamomile in it for $60 and tell you that it will help prevent wrinkles and that would be legal because using any kind of moisturizing agent, even $2 skin lotion can help prevent wrinkles. That would be legal. It would not be legal if I told you that it is proven to absolutely prevent all wrinkles from every forming. It would also be illegal if I told you that it was the same thing as botox or aha or elastin, etc. As long as I do not say "This is <something that it isn't>" or "This will absolutely cure/prevent <whatever problem>" then I could sell you anything. It's all in how it's phrased, and if somebody has the money to advertise any crap they have, it's legal to as long as it doesn't say something that is flat out untrue.

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I absolutely agree with the OP about those annoying, sneaky ads. I can't stand them. They are so obviously trying to trick you and get money from you. I think the majority of the ads are actually like that. I feel the presence of criminals everywhere on the net. I agree that it's rather irresponsible of those websites to put those ads on them. Having said that, I don't think I see ads on Google, but on many other sites.