{"id":274039,"date":"2018-09-03T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=274039"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:50:42","slug":"google-cracks-down-on-tech-support-adverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/274039-google-cracks-down-on-tech-support-adverts.html","title":{"rendered":"Google cracks down on tech support adverts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/ads\/restricting-ads-third-party-tech-support-services\/?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>cracking down<\/strong><\/a> on tech support adverts to ensure it maintains a &#8220;healthy advertising ecosystem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that it will protect\u00a0people from misleading, inappropriate, and harmful ads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have teams of engineers, policy experts, product managers, and others who wage a daily fight against bad actors,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just last year alone, we took down more than 3.2 billion ads that violated our advertising policies &#8211; that\u2019s more than 100 bad ads per second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a big to fight tech support scams, Google is rolling out a verification programme &#8220;to ensure that only legitimate providers of third-party tech support can use our platform to reach consumers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s more to do, and we\u2019ll continue committing the resources necessary to keep the online advertising ecosystem a safe place for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/273993-mtn-and-banks-targeted-by-nigerian-shakedown.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN and banks targeted by Nigerian \u201cshakedown\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google aims to maintain a &#8220;healthy advertising ecosystem&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":178572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,43178],"class_list":["post-274039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-tech-support-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274041,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274039\/revisions\/274041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}