Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

[mikemcquaid@mastodon.social]

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.

Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/1074

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@mikemcquaid
Is an ad, right?

[partizan@twiukraine.com]

@EndlessMason @mikemcquaid It is always an ad!

Would be nice to take them to court for this shit.

[minkiu@mastodon.social]

@mikemcquaid the solution is simple, just pay more for the ad/promote slot. /s

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@partizan @mikemcquaid
Sometimes it's just a slop article that does really well at SEO

[minimac@mastodon.world]

@mikemcquaid @bagder Advertising is how Google makes its billions—to hell with them.

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@mikemcquaid This is the same Google which is so uncapable of handling SPAM that they ended their USENET peering instead of curbing abuse of Google Groups for advertising.

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

My wishes that the cybersecurity people demonized Google Chrome before it could become dominant just took on a whole different meaning.

Google does the same spying shit as Ask/Babylon Toolbar and BonziBuddy, but in a program that people actually like using.

This is the same company that kicked the official Newpipe (3rd party Youtube client) off of Play Store, while letting malware/adware-infested versions roam free.

#degoogle

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/116113777201539870

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@troed @mikemcquaid
As much as I dislike fundamentalist doomsday preachers, I still think that calling these companies the spawns of Satan is the only responsible course of action.

[kniffo@mastodon.social]

@mikemcquaid Isn't it possible to report it here?

https://developers.google.com/search/help/report-quality-issues?hl=de

If we do it together, we should have some impact, right?

[letoams@defcon.social]

@mikemcquaid good luck, I ran into this when searching for “esta” where the first hit is a malicious site tehat bought the keyword at google and not the USG site.

[stefanct@chaos.social]

@mikemcquaid anybody who sees ads on the internet have their security compromised.

[dusoft@fosstodon.org]

@mikemcquaid META earns similarly hundreds of millions from scam, spam, malware, phishing. They just don't care. Neither does Google.

[dusoft@fosstodon.org]

@stefanct @mikemcquaid and that's why FBI used to recommend ad blockers as malware/phishing prevention measure.