Google put up quite a fight to defend its users from harmful ads. The company says it dealt with thousands of fake websites and millions of "bad ads" throughout 2015.
In a Google blog post detailing the whole ordeal, the company reveals that it disabled over 780 million ads for violating the policies it put in place to determine what kinds of ads businesses can run through them. That number has only gone up over the years, but so has the amount of harmful ads it has managed to eliminate.
About 1,000 Google employees monitored and removed these ads last year. They blocked over 7,000 phishing websites; suspended over 10,000 websites attempting to sell counterfeit products, and another 10,000 sites offering "unwanted software" that did nothing but affect system performance and alter user's homepages.
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In a Google blog post detailing the whole ordeal, the company reveals that it disabled over 780 million ads for violating the policies it put in place to determine what kinds of ads businesses can run through them. That number has only gone up over the years, but so has the amount of harmful ads it has managed to eliminate.
About 1,000 Google employees monitored and removed these ads last year. They blocked over 7,000 phishing websites; suspended over 10,000 websites attempting to sell counterfeit products, and another 10,000 sites offering "unwanted software" that did nothing but affect system performance and alter user's homepages.
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