I know they allow scam adverts because it's easy money, but why aren't they held responsible for facilitating obvious scams? You open Edge, there's 3 "Earn money quick" adverts. On Instagram, every 5 ads, one is a scam.

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    Nobody has the time to thoroughly research EVERY business that wants to buy advertising.

    Wrong. Nobody wants to spend the money to do that, because they know they will not be held responsible for aiding and abetting fraud.

    Change the responsibility factor, and the money will be there.

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      Or, instead of finding that money, they find another way to avoid spending it.

      It wouldn’t be long before you only see advertising from large corporations. Love them or hate them, we all know that Walmart is a legit business. A potential, morally superior competitor, that we’ve never heard of may not even get the chance to advertise. The newspaper or TV station doesn’t want to risk getting sued for a scam, so they just refuse service. Walmart keeps playing ads, and nobody ever hears about the store that we never knew we wanted.

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        In the one hand though, if only the big corporations can afford ads, blocking them becomes even easier.