Even 100 iPhones is still just one bigass box or a single rack of reasonable ones. And modern Google doesn't seem to even index 1% of content, but happily indexes loads of SEO spam.
If they'd instead just manually delisted offenders early and started making rules to flag potential copycats asap, many of the techniques would never have taken off. Lots of resources spent designing new attack, minimal payoff.
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And by controlling the ad market & delaying payouts, they could have revoked ad earnings and made the payoff zero.
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Not saying it's remotely justifiable that they controlled these markets. But they could have used that control for the good of users in addition to evil uses.
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Dunning. Kruger.
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Inigo Montoya.
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