Google claims to have removed 3.2 Billion Bad Ads in 2017

Google the tech giant has claimed to remove 3.2 billion bad ads from its platform in an effort to curb the malware advertisement campaigns. Google has also said along with the malware advertising it also has stopped phishing scams on its platform.

Google further claims to have blocked 79 million ads in its network which were trying to redirect users to malware containing website. Google also has removed approximately 400,000of unsafe websites which showed up in its search results back in 2017.

The report from Beebom suggests that Google has also removed 66 million 'trick-to-click' ads along with 48 million ads which were trying to get a user to download unwanted software. Google also has made improvement in its policies against the fake news publishers last year. As per Google, they have also removed around 320,000 publishers, approximately 90,000 websites and nearly 700,000 mobile apps which were violating its policy which prohibits "dangerous and derogatory" content. Also in order to curb the plagiarism, Google had said that it had blocked over 12,000 back in 2017.

That said, it is an impressive move taken by Google as it will allow the users to surf the web without any security issues. Let's see what else Google has in store for the users.

In recent events, Google had also banned the ads related to cryptocurrency and has said that it will stop displaying such ads on its platform. Google has made an announcement that coming June, the company will stop running the Cryptocurrency Ads on its platform. The company also will not cater any request related to running the ads on its platform. It is being reported that the tech giant made the announcement that "any adverting about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings, wallets and trading advice." Read the complete story here.

Earlier Facebook is banning advertisements for cryptocurrency including ICO (Initial coin offerings) etc as "intentionally broad" policy against the misleading marketing. The effect of the ban could also be seen its other platforms including Instagram, Audience Network and Messenger. Read more here.

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