{"id":5031,"date":"2022-03-13T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/google-profiting-from-predatory-loan-adverts-promising-instant-cash\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:36:39","slug":"google-profiting-from-predatory-loan-adverts-promising-instant-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/google-profiting-from-predatory-loan-adverts-promising-instant-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Google profiting from \u2018predatory\u2019 loan adverts promising instant cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ads, some offering loans delivered \u2018faster than a pizza\u2019, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble<\/p>\n<p>Google is profiting from ads promoting \u201cinstant\u201d cash and loans delivered \u201cfaster than pizza\u201d despite a pledge to \u200bprotect users from \u201cdeceptive and harmful\u201d financial products.<\/p>\n<p>The ads were served to people in the UK who searched terms like \u201cquick money now\u201d and \u201cneed money help\u201d\u200b and directed users to \u200bfirms offering high-interest loans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/13\/google-profiting-from-predatory-loan-adverts-promising-instant-cash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/08bc65300b7979baf732c75bca33038af03d997e\/0_112_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b90e1b59574760d571ff7561cbfe0413\" title=\"Google profiting from \u2018predatory\u2019 loan adverts promising instant cash\" \/>The ads, some offering loans delivered \u2018faster than a pizza\u2019, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble<br \/>\nGoogle is profiting from ads promoting \u201cinstant\u201d cash and loans delivered \u201cfaster than pizza\u201d despite a pledge to \u200bprotect users from \u201cdeceptive and harmful\u201d financial products.<br \/>\nThe ads were served to people in the UK who searched terms like \u201cquick money now\u201d and \u201cneed money help\u201d\u200b and directed users to \u200bfirms offering high-interest loans. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ads, some offering loans delivered \u2018faster than a pizza\u2019, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble Google is profiting from ads promoting \u201cinstant\u201d cash and loans delivered \u201cfaster than pizza\u201d despite a pledge to \u200bprotect users from \u201cdeceptive and harmful\u201d financial products. The ads were served to people in the UK who searched &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/google-profiting-from-predatory-loan-adverts-promising-instant-cash\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google profiting from \u2018predatory\u2019 loan adverts promising instant cash<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}