Sometimes it's just priced in. If partner A has a 10% fraud rate and partner B has a 5% rate but partner A is 10% cheaper than partner B, while you'll probably complain to partner A it's still the sensible choice.
Agreed. The real losers are the genuine content creators, as the adcash isn’t flowing to them. They can’t just average it out.
Of course there’s no way to contact and tell Google that Google gave me fraud traffic and got me banned from Google.
Honestly after the ad images/video, all the fraud detection javascript from the advertiser, the publisher, the advertiser's system of choice, the publisher's system of choice all doing "trust but verify" with each other is the largest contributor to how big ads are.
Best was when I kept seeing ads for a thing I was selling. I visited some big box sites about it to copy the specs on it.
I think if ads were smarter, you'd get ads for your vacuum's filter a few months after buying it and maybe replacement pieces just after warranty, but what do I know?