Bing rejected 130M ads in 2016, including 17M tech support scam ads
Advertisers attempting Phishing attacks and pushing counterfeit goods continued to try to evade detection. Bing Ads released its report on actions it took to keep malicious and misleading ads and advertisers off the search results in 2016. Its systems rejected 130 million ads (fewer than the 250 million were rejected in 2015) and banned 175,000 advertisers (more than the 150,000 banned the prior year). Phishing ads, ads promoting tech support scams and counterfiet goods continued to be areas in which Bing continued to battle bad actors. More than 7,000 sites were blocked for…
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