#google ads

People are out here making and posting this content on YouTube for FREE and generating BILLIONS in profit for Google and they have the AUDACITY to poison the stream to the point where it's more sewage than water.

I understand the platform needs to make money to function. I want my favorite creators to be rewarded for their work. An ad every video? Fine. Singular midroll ads for 20+ minute videos? Sure. I can tolerate that. But the sickening prevalence of advertising on this platform is abhorrent, and I know for a fact most of that isn't going back to creators, who still need to supplement their content with sponsors and third-party donation sites.

And like hell am I gonna pay them on a *free* platform in order for it to be usable again, especially when they're already taking advantage of a financial crisis to wring time and attention from people who can't pay up.

So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.

That top result (an ad)? It's fake. It goes to https://kiinthaila.com, which is NOT the website for Kiin.

The *third* result is real: https://kiinthaiburbank.com

Fake site:

Real site:

I got duped. I placed an order with the fake site. The fake site then placed the order - in my name! -  with the real site, having marked up the prices by 15%. Kiin clearly knows they're doing this (presumably by the billing data on the credit card the fakesters use to place the order). They called me within minutes to tell me they'd cancelled the fakesters' order.

I could still come pick it up, but I'd have to pay them, and cancel the payment to the fakesters with Amex. Actually, as it turns out, I have to cancel TWO payments, because the fakesters DOUBLE-charged me.

Here's what that charge looks like on my Amex bill. See that phone number? (415) 639-9034 is the number for Wix, who provides the scammers' website.

How the actual FUCK did these obvious scammers get an Amex merchant account in the name of "KIINTHAILA" by after supplying the phone number for a website hosting company? What is Amex's KYC procedure? Do they even call the phone number?

And why the actual FUCK is Google Ads accepting these scam artists' ads for a business that they already have a knowledge box for?! Google KNOWS what the real KIIN restaurant is, and yet they are accepting payment to put a fake KIIN listing two slots ABOVE the real one.

To be fair to these scammer asshole ripoff creeps who are trying to steal from my local mom-and-pop, single location Thai eatery, they're just following in the shoes of Doordash and Uber Eats, who did the same thing to hundreds (thousands?) of restaurants during lockdown.

Doug Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to “Go Meta” - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things.

These parasites have turned themselves into landlords of someone else's home, collecting rent on a property they don't own and have no connection to.

There's NEVER just one ant. I guaran-fucking-tee you that these same creeps have 1,000 other fake Wix websites with 1,000 fake Amex merchant accounts for 1,000 REAL businesses, and that Google has sold them ads for every one of them. Amex and Google and Wix should be able to spot these creeps FROM ORBIT. Holy shit do we live in the worst of all possible timelines. We have these monopolist megacorps that spy on and control everything we do, wielding the most arbitrary and high-handed authority.

And yet they do NOT ONE FUCKING THING to prevent these petty scammers from using their infra as force-multipliers to let them steal from every hungry person patronizing every local restaurant.

I mean, what's the point of letting these robber-barons run the entire show if they're not even COMPETENT?

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Google Ads platformunda güvenli ve şeffaf bir reklam ortamı oluşturmak amacıyla bazı reklam hesaplarından doğrulama işlemleri talep edilebilir. Bu süreçte işletmelerden İşletme faaliyet doğrulaması yapmaları istenir. Bu doğrulama, reklam veren işletmenin gerçek bir ticari faaliyet yürüttüğünü ve sunduğu hizmetlerin Google politikalarına uygun olduğunu doğrulamayı amaçlar. Böylece platformda yayınlanan reklamların güvenilirliği artırılır ve kullanıcıların güvenli bir reklam deneyimi yaşaması sağlanır.

Doğrulama sürecinde Google, işletmenin web sitesi içeriğini, sunduğu hizmetleri ve müşteri ile iletişim kurma yöntemlerini inceleyebilir. Bunun yanında işletmenin faaliyet alanı, şirket bilgileri ve ticari modeli de değerlendirme sürecinin önemli parçalarıdır. Bu aşamada verilen bilgilerin doğru ve eksiksiz olması oldukça önemlidir. Eksik veya yanlış bilgiler doğrulama sürecinin uzamasına neden olabilir ve bazı durumlarda reklam hesaplarında kısıtlamalar ortaya çıkabilir.

Bu nedenle faaliyet doğrulaması sürecinin dikkatli şekilde yönetilmesi gerekir. Doğrulama işlemi başarıyla tamamlandığında reklam hesabının güvenilirliği artar ve kampanyalar kesintisiz şekilde yayınlanabilir. Özellikle aktif olarak Google Ads kullanan işletmeler için bu süreç oldukça önemlidir.