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...
Trust and safety doesn’t have the same maturity as cyber security. Things like trend and signal sharing between tech firms doesn’t exist, except through informal slack channels and WhatsApp groups.
The first major safety conferences for trust and safety came together only in 2023.