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		adanto6840 on Oct 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome a... Surely they're doing some verification to ensure that either the redirect lands on the advertised TLD, or alternatively that you're at least "in control" of the TLD you're advertising as (similar to GAnalytics verification -- via meta tag, DNS txt entry, etc)?

utopcell on Oct 28, 2018 [–]

Google does.

ocdtrekkie on Oct 28, 2018 | [–]

Doesn't seem to work much better than whatever solution Bing uses, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18317051

Though that was 2017, and Google might've improved their protections since then.

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