(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Under the new policy, the company will ban ads for unregulated or speculative financial products like binary options, cryptocurrency and financial spread betting among others. http://bit.ly/2Inxgg8 In a separate blog post, Google said it took down 3.2 billion ads that violated its advertising policies in 2017, nearly double the number of ads it removed in 2016.
“Improving the ads experience across the web, whether that’s removing harmful ads or intrusive ads, will continue to be a top priority for us,” Scott Spencer, director of sustainable ads, said. http://bit.ly/2IoTXQQ In January, Facebook Inc The policy will be implemented across its platforms, including Facebook, Audience Network and Instagram, the company said.
(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)