Absolutely Appaled How Google Supports Deceiving Ads & Malware Distribution

For years I use adblocker while browsing the web - yes I know, being an "internet marketer" and using an adblock plugin...

Anway...recently I set-up several new computers which brings with it that I also install a new browser on them temporarily, being forced to surf the web WITHOUT the adblock plugin for a short time.

This is when I saw how incredible misleading, appalling and annoying Google ads have become - the thing which really annoyed me was that those ads are not appearing on some "shady" sites, but premium sites like sourceforge, cnet and many otherwise reputable sites.

Here just an example..



(Image: The above "download" buttons are ALL ads, coming up on the "download" sub-page for a known tool. The above is not even the worst example.)

As someone using adblocker religiously otherwise I haven't seen such in a long time and I was seriously "shocked", to say the least.

This the more since I, in the same way as many other fellow IMers, used to have sites myself where I had adsense on it, so i KNOW about the strict "rules" Google had in regards to ad placement....even gotten banned in the past and this and that.

WHAT - ON EARTH - HAS HAPPENED?

Those are the most deceiving ads where Google actively supports the worst even imaginable ad-placement and distribution of malware...it just left me speechless.

Note that in the above example, I clicked on "download" for a certain software program, on the page here are all those "download" buttons, some even saying "latest version" etc..while on the page itself there is no actual download link for the tool in question.

For downloading the tool, I needed to click on a tiny, almost unnoticeable link to get to another page (which had further "download" ad buttons) and literally "search" several minutes how to actually get what I wanted.

I am not really a dummy when it comes to the use of computers, but even I had a hard time at first downloading some tools which I needed to set-up those newly installed PCs since it was almost impossible to discern what the read download links were.

I am just absolutely appalled, seriously.

PS: I used to blame my wife and other people for being..well..not careful to infect any computer she's on with malware, toolbars and similar....now I know why.