So what can you do? Google said earlier this week it had blocked 1.7 billion bad ads in 2016, far more than in 2015 as it stepped up the fight against advertisers who don’t exactly play fair.īut all that takes time.
Rogue ads, ones that Google has been clamping down on, are an annoyance at best and harmful to your machines at worst. We’ve all been there – ads that take over your web browser, redirect you to unwanted websites or try to force you to download some software that you never asked for.