alt Hacker NewsThat doesn't really change the fact that it's hard. Do you know how many full movies are on YouTube that infringe on copyright? How many pirated streams are hosted on S3? How many piracy sites are behind Cloudflare. It's just very hard to police at scale and if something is flying below the radar it will be there for a while. They probably spread out their assets over many accounts, or even use misconfigured buckets with write permissions to drop some files in there.
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I kinda lost the plot here - what does piracy have to do with spam and phishing?
This argument actually doesn’t work in Google/your-point favor since finding pirated content on Google is now practically impossible.
The reality is, Google is driven strictly by incentives and there are no consequences for letting spam/scams run wild vs. pirated content which gets automatically removed when a DMCA notice is received.
Google's inability to scale their services should be a regulatory issue.
If their platforms (Gmail, YouTube, DoubleClick) are being used to launch scams, they're failing at scale and governments are failing at legislating / regulating.
The only way to use Google services somewhat safely is with hefty ad (and the rest) blocking.
All this ID and surveillance and privacy invasion and metadata retention and yet all these scams only seen to grow. It never seems to end up protecting anyone deserving of protection.
I wonder what it's all been in aid of...