[WarmWash]

Ironically it's only really people who heavily ad-block/privacy-protect that get these scam/malware ads.

When Google has no profile on you, your view is virtually worthless, so it's only bottom feeders that bid on those views.

Average users get Coke and Tide ads. Its usually the most technically adept that get the worst ads, and usually they just turn their ad block back on.

[tjpnz]

If I wasn't blocking ads this is what I would normally be seeing.

[WarmWash]

Yeah, for a few weeks for sure.

But after that you would get dialed in and stop seeing them.

Google's core mission is to figure out what you are going to buy before you buy it so they can have you click through them to make the purchase.

They generally have negative interest in serving scams/malware ads because people generally don't want to buy those things. On the same token though it's a very hard problem to 100% solve, and the people impacted are usually the lowest value users anyway.

[cute_boi]

From where did you come to conclusion that adblock users get malware ads? This is the first time I am hearing this thing.

[WarmWash]

They aren't, because they are blocking ads.

But when they turn off ad-block, to "see what it's like", they are not getting an accurate view. It's usually all crypto and other scammy/vices type ads.

Go look at your mom's browser. Her Google ads are going to be clothes, tissues, and cookware.

Nigerian prince scams cannot outbid Kleenex without breaking the economics of the scam. But they can get loaded when Kleenex no-bids because they don't know who the viewer is.

Trust me, ad-tech is far far beyond 2004 when ad block showed up.

(I'll add that of course there are other less legitimate ad networks, and I'm not counting "snake oil" products, which are essentially scams but customers still swear by them)