Google blocked and removed over 5,000 ‘bad ads’ a minute in 2019

NEW DELHI: Google on Monday said it blocked and removed 2.7 billion “bad ads” – more than 5,000 bad ads per minute – in 2019, and suspended nearly one million advertiser accounts for policy violations as part of its efforts to protect users from misleading ads.

The tech giant also noted that there has been a sharp spike in fraudulent ads for in-demand products like face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed lakhs of lives globally.