Microsoft’s Bing Blocked Over Five Million Cryptocurrency-Related Ads in 2018
Cointelegraph
Published Mar 25, 2019 02:49PM ET
Updated Mar 25, 2019 03:05PM ET
Microsoft’s Bing Blocked Over Five Million Cryptocurrency-Related Ads in 2018
Microsoft-owned search engine and advertisement platform Bing noted that it blocked over five million cryptocurrency-related ads last year in its “Ad quality year in review 2018” report published on March 25.
Bing notes that the pseudo-anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) “made cryptocurrency a prime target for fraudsters and scam artists to defraud end-users.” Bing claims that this is the reason for the ban of cryptocurrency-related content from its advertising platform that resulted in over five million ads being blocked.
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