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Lol I had ublock installed on my browser at work and it was auto-uninstalled by some IT script after a week or so

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Why isn't Gemini smart enough to drop from search? /s

@zackwhittaker Also, Google.

@zackwhittaker There's a common thread between Chromium's adblock hobbling and Android Developer Verification - both want to technologically keep you from circumventing Google's slop, using security as a pretext, but their vetting is so dogwater that you're actually less safe than if you use f-droid and an adblocker.

@zackwhittaker it's about time to make the liable for the ads they publish. Google earned money from this attack.

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I've seen this happen to a coworker who was trying to install Firefox on Windows.

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Given this and the recent Facebook news, there's a very strong case to be made that an ad provider is legally an accomplice to any crime committed by their ads. If they are profiting financially from enabling crime, they are criminals.

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Well, a person pretending he/she is a professional in sysadmin who does such things should consider a career change or be more seriously supervised, first of all.

#AdaptiveManagement

@zackwhittaker the average consumer is marketing fodder. We get little protections from these marketing agencies and search engins putting these in front of our faces. I don't fall for I but I know 20 who would

@zackwhittaker this reminds me of a question I've had: Can we get ad-blockers that don't *tell* the advertiser we're blocking them?

@zackwhittaker Uhm, how would have an ad blocked helped in that case? It seems that the employee was a victim of SEO poisoning, not of a malicious ad. They weren't just shown an ad for the malicious site out of the blue - they searched for a tool and clicked on one of the results displayed by Google.

@zackwhittaker @briankrebs Honest question: I have had 1Blocker installed since iOS enabled blockers. To what extent does an app like this intercept and identify my legitimate web traffic? In this case the developer is Russian from what I can see, which, while not immediately rendering them untrustworthy, does raise my eyebrows ...

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Another thing that can help is an updated and fully functioning pi-hole between you and the internet.

pi-hole runs on anything that runs a supported OS although I use a Raspberry Pi 2 for this purpose.

#pihole #raspberrypi

@zackwhittaker I hadn’t used windows for many years and just started again a few weeks ago.

I searched for “windows rsat” and the MS download link was not the first result. There were several shady looking domains all throughout the result. It’s honestly kind of nuts.

@zackwhittaker funny thing is that Google is THE company that thrives on ads

@zackwhittaker it’s also essential for #accessibility!

I don’t need any light gray X buttons in my life.

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