And google is trying to force as many as ads down our throats as possible.
Fuck Google.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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I'm nostalgic for the day when Google was the good company. A few years before "alphabet" you could see the change coming and since "alphabet" they are worse every year.
They never were the "good company," in my opinion. We were just naive and ignorant of what they were up to.
And they were trying to maintain a false veneer. Nowadays it's mask off with them.
.. and attempting to kill adblockers!
In the future your browser will be able to remotely attest that you have no viable security solution to block the infection and no working backups as a condition for being served these malicious ads, increasing the ad value since they can now be more precisely targeted
Fuck Google
And they wonder why we block ads
It’s about time the ad hosts, like google and Facebook, are found liable for all this nonsense in a class action.
Phew, good thing we block all ads, etc, then.
My PiHole lost is over 7.5 million domains, it's a beast. I love the people that make that software!!
More isnt necessarily better though
Despite the fact that I haven't used Google for a long time, and I don't download that software, my refusal to click ads even if they are for the exact site I need is finally paying off
Stories like this really make me wish there was a viable mobile OS not connected to Google or Apple either directly or by way of them being the ultimate maintainer so I could cut such things out if my life completely.
It just doesn't sit right with me that Android is the only mobile OS that really allows me the most flexibility to avoid such things, yet it is ultimately controlled by Google.
iOS seems like getting around some of the arthritis problems in your left hand by amputating the hand out right.
I keep hoping for Linux mobile. Windows 11 runs Android apps, so a Linux mobile OS that runs Android apps would be a dream.
I bought a Pinephone a year or so back hoping I could "make do" with it. But that project is still falls dreadfully short of anything beyond a curiosity to play with.
boy am I glad to use Firefox and uBlock Origin 😁👍
Mark my words, this is going to become more common. When corporations become as large as nation-states they will begin to act like nation-states.
Oh, you got malware from our ads? Well if we could implement our Web Integrity API we could easily verify, and track any ads and prevent this. It's all about security and think of how much better your security would be if we could prevent this!
When corporations become as large as nation-states
They may not be in terms of people, but many sure as hell are already bigger in terms of money than a LOT of countries. Not to mention how Microsoft alone is the "glue" holding together a fuckload of different govt's computer systems.
Blocking ad networks at the router wins again.
Google wants even more than billions of dollars in ad revenue but can't or won't properly curate their ads. If you're too big to control your content then you're too big as a company. But I suspect they just don't want to pay people to curate the ads.
This means any attempt to kill adblockers is a serious security risk, while google even trying to force it into other browsers through that web integrity stuff.
I'm very mildly shocked that "another fake download site exists and is being shown to people through ads" still makes the news. Feel like you should at least need to pass the bar of installing without several instances of user input before it'd be news-worthy.
I think it's particularly newsworthy in the context of Chromium's web environment integrity push. Adblocking is basic security for a lot of people who support non-savvy users who otherwise may go through these several instances of user input.
Title incomplete, also via bing search ads
Oh cool another reason why everyone should hate googles ad service!
Pi-hole to the rescue!
Good thing I’m blocking ads!