| ▲ | ThrustVectoring 2 hours ago | |
Google pays third-party websites to host advertisements, and shady website owners will put ads on such a website and bot clicks on it. | ||
| ▲ | consumer451 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
I misspoke. I meant google search ads specificaly, not ads that appeared on 3rd party sites. | ||
| ▲ | hermitcrab 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You can bid just on the ads that Google shows on its own website to avoid this. | ||