I think the easiest thing to do would be to pass a law or regulation requiring companies to be responsible for the ads shown on their sites. If, say, the NYTimes is promoting scams (they are) they should be fined or worse.
I expect a decent percentage is total BS and too big to get rid of without messing with their quarterly numbers.
Of course, it would be pretty simple for google to prevent through a sort of advertiser FICO score. But they don’t, because it would make then less money.
There is also way too much inertia behind it. Large corps benefit wah too much from these scams. They aren't going to cut off such a revenue stream. Our elected officials don't understand the issue enough to do it correctly.
If grifters weren’t allowed the entire YouTube economy would collapse. The tate-wannabes would be in shambles. It’d be awesome.
Also this country, and capitalism, LOVE scams. There are countless legal scams running right now in the US government. As long as the right people are benefiting from the scams then they aren't going anywhere.
I don't think it will be so easy this time around. We probably need to shift liability to the parties able to do something about it (advertising platforms).
The funny part is that they most probably got my mail from the "Who wants to be hired?" post from here and most probably they're using some sort of ai tool to scan those emails, even those that are "hidden" by a 'please see my portfolio to get my mail' like mine.
It's been the same story for the last few months - I post on HN's "Who wants to be hired?" and a few days later I get no real job offers but scam slop like that.
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