[djnliung]

Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and Android) are immune to this adware. It would be financially irresponsible for them to waste money helping a competitor.

>If Google wants to help make the web a better place...

I imagine Google thinks it is making the web a better place by investing in the web, not fighting loosing battles trying to fix old and broken platforms.

[prodigal_erik]

If users decide that it's not safe to click on ads, and start blocking or looking out for them en masse, Google has a problem.