AW: 'Download' ads on tortoise website

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Kurt Pruenner [mailto:leak_at_gmx.at]
>
> And please don't tell me that the ad in the screenshot isn't a
> deliberate deception to make users mistake it for the real download
> button they're looking for.

This is the point.
What Kurt sent is not an ad.
It is an attempt to defraud.
Because it does not tell what you download (from where).
So it is not far-fetched that users assume that they download
what the page is about: TortoiseSVN.

Stefan, I can accept that there are ads on the tortoiseSVN page
put I want some standards to be respected.

We (you, Stefan, being google's customer?)
should complain at the ad service that *this*
kind of ads is not accepted.
In Germany, I'd try to catch this with "Unlauterer Wettbewerb"
or "Betrug".
I would ask Google's law department whether they think it is
already "Betrug" if they - knowingly -
distribute such misleading ads. (That is: tell them that they
did and ask them politely whether they think it's legal that
they continue after you informed them.)

BGB according to dejure.org: "§ 263
Betrug.(1) Wer in der Absicht, sich oder einem Dritten einen rechtswidrigen Vermögensvorteil zu verschaffen, das Vermögen eines anderen dadurch beschädigt, daß er durch Vorspiegelung falscher oder durch Entstellung oder Unterdrückung wahrer Tatsachen einen Irrtum erregt oder unterhält, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu fünf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.

(2) Der Versuch ist strafbar.
"

And "einen Irrtum erregen oder unterhalten" is surely true with
an ad that looks like a download button.

And maybe we should contact aquafold.com to sue that advertiser,
because aquafold does it far better, they tell you that they're
someone else.

Still I think it's strange that the ads are so targeted that they
offer directly competing products.
If I published a sports club's monthly newsletter, I would accept
ads for everything legal, be it insurances, bakery stores, plumbers,
except for other sports clubs.

Hartmut

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