The business model of ads seems to work, otherwise there would be no Google or New York Times to complain about.
Traditionally (i.e. in the print version) the ads in an edition of the NYT did not contain malware that was going to infect my computer and install toolbars and key loggers.
Google ads point to sites that contain malware. If you want people to stop criticising Google ads then maybe you should drop whatever Google+ stuff your boss thinks you are working on right now and fix the fact that searches for 'Firefox' return ads that point to sites containing malware downloads.
One of those sites even has a page offering a malware infested Chrome download (although I couldn't get it to show in an ad), so maybe that will motivate you to act. (googlechrome.xtremedownload.com).
A brief search seems to suggest that those sites bundle the apps with toolbars and unwanted browser extensions that do things like inject ads into pages and so on. Potentially they are doing even worse things.
Web pages present you with what the content creator wants you to see. Chrome extensions as documented in this article change that out from under you without telling you. Do you see the difference?
The difference seems fairly unimportant when the content creator (in this case Google) is happy to serve me ads that are just as malicious as these malware browser extensions.
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Traditionally (i.e. in the print version) the ads in an edition of the NYT did not contain malware that was going to infect my computer and install toolbars and key loggers.
Google ads point to sites that contain malware. If you want people to stop criticising Google ads then maybe you should drop whatever Google+ stuff your boss thinks you are working on right now and fix the fact that searches for 'Firefox' return ads that point to sites containing malware downloads.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jX5Lt9F.png
One of those sites even has a page offering a malware infested Chrome download (although I couldn't get it to show in an ad), so maybe that will motivate you to act. (googlechrome.xtremedownload.com).
A brief search seems to suggest that those sites bundle the apps with toolbars and unwanted browser extensions that do things like inject ads into pages and so on. Potentially they are doing even worse things.
The difference seems fairly unimportant when the content creator (in this case Google) is happy to serve me ads that are just as malicious as these malware browser extensions.
Now we've completely derailed the discussion.