Topic: policy violations
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Google Ads Suspensions: Essential Advertiser Guide
Google Ads suspends accounts to enforce policies and protect users, using automated systems and human review to assess violations across ads, websites, and business practices. Suspensions can be immediate or follow a warning, halting all ad activity and potentially affecting linked accounts, with...
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Google Ads Strikes: Avoid Warnings and Prevent Suspension
Google Ads employs a "three-strikes" system targeting repeated violations of specific policies, which can escalate from warnings to temporary ad holds and ultimately permanent account suspension. The system's enforcement can be inconsistent, with incorrect strikes sometimes issued, requiring adve...
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Open-Source Security Scanner for GitHub & GitLab
Legitify is an open-source scanner that audits GitHub and GitLab environments to identify security misconfigurations and policy violations, helping prevent software supply chain attacks. The tool performs comprehensive checks across five key areas, including organization settings and repository s...
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Nudify Apps Evade Google and Apple App Store Moderation
Apps that digitally remove clothing from images are widely available on major app stores, generating millions in revenue despite violating platform policies, highlighting significant content moderation failures. These apps, downloaded hundreds of millions of times, easily create non-consensual in...
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Google streamlines bulk ad appeals with campaign filters
Google Ads has introduced a new filtering feature for bulk appeals, allowing advertisers to select ads from specific campaigns for re-evaluation instead of submitting all eligible ads from an entire account. This change addresses a previous inefficiency where outdated or inactive campaigns were o...
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Google spam reports now trigger manual penalties
Google now explicitly states that user-submitted spam reports can directly trigger manual penalties against violating websites, a substantive shift from past practices where reports were primarily used for algorithmic analysis. The content of a spam report may be forwarded verbatim to the affecte...
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Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Affiliate Links and ChatGPT Logins
Malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store are hijacking e-commerce affiliate commissions and stealing sensitive data, including ChatGPT authentication tokens, by exploiting browser permissions. These extensions, such as "Amazon Ads Blocker," often combine deceptive features, violate store poli...
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Freecash App: Does It Really Pay for TikTok Scrolling?
The Freecash app surged in popularity by misleadingly advertising that users could get paid for scrolling TikTok, but it actually pays for completing specific in-game tasks in mobile games, not for passive social media use. The app operates as an advertising platform for game developers, who pay ...
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Microsoft Unveils Granular Ad Review for Asset-Level Control
Microsoft Advertising now provides asset-level editorial review, allowing advertisers to see the policy approval status for individual ad components like headlines and images, rather than a single verdict for the entire ad. This granular system isolates non-compliant elements, enabling the rest o...
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Google's Gemini AI Model Shows Safety Decline
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model shows a 4.1% decline in text-to-text safety and a 9.6% drop in image-to-text safety compared to its predecessor, raising concerns about content moderation. Major AI developers like Google, Meta, and OpenAI are prioritizing permissiveness, but this sh...
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Hugging Face tool used to undress women and children
A European nonprofit investigation found that seven of nine top image-editing models on Hugging Face complied with simple requests to undress women, enabling nonconsensual deepfakes without guardrails like those on mainstream AI tools. Researchers, using decoy Spaces, observed over 1,000 prompts ...
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Google Tightens Misrepresentation Rules for Shopping Ads & Listings
Google has clarified its Misrepresentation policy with additional examples and guidance to help marketers understand the rules without changing enforcement. The update specifically addresses issues like non-delivery of products and faulty refund processes, aiming to prevent confusion and improve ...
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Google Confirms May 2026 Core Update Now Rolling Out
Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update on May 21, 2026, with the full rollout expected to take up to two weeks; this is the second core update of 2026, following the March update completed on April 8. Google has not released a dedicated blog post or specific objectives for this update,...
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Microsoft Fortifies Entra ID Against Script Injection Attacks
Microsoft is enhancing Entra ID security in October 2026 by restricting script downloads to trusted Microsoft domains and allowing inline scripts only from verified sources during sign-ins. This update protects users from threats like cross-site scripting by blocking unauthorized scripts, with th...
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Advocacy Groups Urge Apple, Google to Ban X From App Stores
A coalition of 28 advocacy groups is demanding Apple and Google remove X and its AI tool Grok from their app stores for allegedly enabling the spread of nonconsensual sexual imagery, including child abuse content. The groups argue these platforms violate app store policies by hosting harmful deep...
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Chrome Extensions Stole ChatGPT & DeepSeek Data from 900K Users
Malicious Chrome extensions, posing as legitimate AI tools, stole private conversations and browsing data from over 900,000 users by secretly sending information to attacker-controlled servers. The stolen data, which can include proprietary business information and personal queries, poses a sever...
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Google Cracks Down on Fraudulent Phone Numbers in Ads
Google is updating its policy to ban phone numbers linked to fraud or prior violations, effective December 10, 2025, to improve user safety and reduce misleading ads. Enforcement will phase in over eight weeks, targeting deceptive practices in industries like tech support scams and lead generatio...
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