Clicking on a Google ad can be like gambling, except that there are no winners in the game. Land on a legitimate website, and you’ve fed the algorithm info about what ads to keep serving you. End up ...

Google Ads now lets you download the overview card / page report as an image in PNG format or as data in CSV format. This was spotted by Chris Ridley on Twitter who shared a screenshot of this new ...

Malware operators have been increasingly abusing the Google Ads platform to spread malware to unsuspecting users searching for popular software products. Among the products impersonated in these ...

Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of ...

Google is planning to add automated prevention of all downloads initiated from within ad frames which lack user activation, as part of an effort to boost the security of Chrome users by blocking ...

There is an exhausting long thread at WebmasterWorld that I have been tracking since it started. The thread discusses that some Google AdSense ads, specifically the new video ads, may be prompting 3rd ...

Google developers plan to add a feature to Chrome that will prevent advertising slots on a website from triggering automatic file downloads in users browsers. "We plan to prevent downloads initiated ...

Microsoft's Bing search engine last week was serving to some users a fake Google Chrome download ad that may have included malicious content. After receiving user reports about the ad, Microsoft ...

Google has created its own universe. If you wanted to, you could use nothing but Google products and live a very fruitful digital life. You could buy a Chromebook, use Gmail and G Suite, post your ...

Highly ranked apps, with millions of installations in total on Google Play, aggressively served ads and drained mobile batteries.