Comment by cbeach

Just heard back from Google regarding my report of the ad that served malware to me:

> Dear Chris,

> We’re writing to let you know that we reviewed your report (ID 579240969280369002).

> Here's what we found

> We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn’t go against Google’s policies, which prohibit certain content and practices that we believe to be harmful to users and the overall online ecosystem.

I think the safest thing I can do right now is avoid using Google for searches and instead use Claude, which at least has functioning safeguards, and is less easily poisoned than Google Search.