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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn't Google using it?

The author documents a deceptive Google ad that mimicked an iOS system dialog, violating multiple Google ad policies, and argues that Google's own AI could trivially detect and reject such ads—raising the question of why it does not enforce its own rules.

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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots.Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.

Nick Abe at Dayzle documents a Google App Ads campaign where the platform reported 21 installs on one day while their own backend recorded only one real user. Forensic analysis of raw analytics revealed the remaining installs bore the hallmarks of bot-farm activity, with old app versions and brief mechanical sessions.

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