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I wonder how much of current ad revenue (Google/FB) is coming from cryptocurrency related companies and how this might negatively impact their earnings.

However, it may be a small amount or they both factored this change into their forecasting before announcements.

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Advertizing scams may give short term profit, but could also lead to long term losses as websites choose to move to a different, less scammy platform.

This is probably a case where the short term financials is the exact wrong way to think about the problem.

google is way too big for this to matter.

After reading about the timeframe, I now think this might be a reason they are blocking ads starting in June, if something is bad, why not stop now, instead of at the start of a new quarter. (when these ads may have likely scammed people for a few more months)

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