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

[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.