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  1. Wait... should *possibly* Yahoo be *possibly* laundering clicks in order to sell prescription medicine through misleading all-ad search pages, none of which have any warnings on them?
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      (landing page: https://search (dot) yahoo (dot) com/yhs/search?p=treatment+copd+medication&hspart=yahoo&hsimp=yhs-qo68&type=158684683&param1=708e7d7a-4486-11ea-b7a8-34bb3d2ac359&param2=jlyywatk4mc4ffxvo12oxsrr )
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        I clicked on some of the links and guess where a lot of them go to.... MORE SEARCH PAGES. I clicked through on some of the links on these search pages and about half of the ones marked "Ad" go to... you guessed it, EVEN MORE SEARCH PAGES.
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          I didn't know what COPD is when I started but I'm five clicks into five different search pages and I still can't tell you! I finally landed on a non-search page... and guess what it is? A lead collection page that also doesn't tell me what I /might/ be sick with.
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            I scrolled down and I can see the lead gen page at least defined the acronym, which def doesn't have to do w/back pain, which is what I assumed on the 1st ad. But guess who is running this page? Grifols! Who/what is Grifols? Sure looks like a pharma company trying to sell drugs
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              At the very least they are definitely trying to get you to take genetic testing, which means this is a lead gen form for a process to not just collect your user data, but eventually your actual genetics. It's Genetic lead gen!
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              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                This is what an incredibly broken system looks like.
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                  If you're one of the non-bs links on that Yahoo search page, like drugs dot com, lung dot org or webmd.... at *some* point aren't you going to start looking at how duplicitous this is, and how impossible it is that these are generating human imps/clicks... and sue someone?
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                    If I was... say... the LungAssociation, I would be seriously looking at my ad spend and wondering just how much of my donors' money is going to fraud impressions.
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                      LungAssociation lol 2 out of the 6 items in this content recommendations block are just links to Yahoo search. The other one is a misleading af Mattress ad.
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                        LungAssociation Enjoy endless Yahoo bs - Chronotope/1126104650275540992
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