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Research: Google involvement in 118K false ad authorization claims #326

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Sharing research relevant to Google tracking/ad ecosystem.

Finding: 118,477 false ad supply chain claims (12.3% of total) involve Google:

  • 64,743 phantom google.com publisher IDs
  • 35,985 via Google Exchange Bidder
  • 15,526 via Rubicon Google accounts

Google created ads.txt/sellers.json standards. They benefit from the standards' failure.

Evidence: https://ivp5.github.io/adtech-audit/
Full research: https://github.com/ivp5/adtech-audit

Thought this might interest the no-google community.

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