The new edition of my relaunched Digital Investigations newsletter shows the 5-step process I used to find piracy sites making money with Google ads and identify a key company working with them.
All done using free tools (and Google's own data!): digitalinvestigations.substack.com/p/investigatin #osint
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This is one of the methodologies we used as part of a Google ads investigation published in December:
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NEW investigation & 
: Google runs the world’s biggest ad network, but it conceals most of the publishers it works with and where it places billions of ad $$$. We cracked open one of the world's most lucrative black boxes and found piracy, porn, & fraud: propublica.org/article/google
: Google runs the world’s biggest ad network, but it conceals most of the publishers it works with and where it places billions of ad $$$. We cracked open one of the world's most lucrative black boxes and found piracy, porn, & fraud: propublica.org/article/googleShow this thread
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