> "The way online advertising works today is a systemic security threat," Wolfie Christl, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, told Reuters. "For states, the private sector, civil society and everyone else alike."
That we allow companies to display ads *no human has reviewed* to millions of people is beyond absurd. Google doesn't have a business model without being allowed to do it, but there is no right to any given business model. It's parasitism, because we all pay the cost of Google's refusal to properly vet ads.
In fact, not only is Google so cheap that they refuse to have humans review ads before displaying them, they don't even run their full *automated* review before starting to display the ads; they do a bunch of their scanning in batch after the campaign starts. Can't keep those advertiser pennies waiting!