@arstechnica Speaking of google, today was the first time I got one of those deepfake Elon Musk-videos about something something cryptocurrency as an ad before a youtube video. And I could find no way to flag or report an ad. I've reported those abominations when they were normal videos, but as ads? #nogoogle#google#malvertising#badvertising#youtube#elonmusk#deepfake
@arstechnica this is the main reason we need package managers and maintainers, going to a website and clicking on an ad that looks like a download button or worse getting tricked by your crappy search engine into a malicious result is not viable for the average consumer.
@arstechnica One more reason to stop using google. As if we needed more. I try to educate my family to stop saying "you can google it." What's wrong with saying "search for it." ("startpage it" doesn't quite have the ring to it ...".)
@arstechnica I used to trust #google products. Now that they’ve changed their focus to profiting and peddling malware, I can’t leave its ecosystem fast enough. Sad.
@arstechnica Ten years ago, we were hacked. The hacker put in what appeared to be Google Adsense code, which Google itself then marked as malicious and put up big security warnings to anyone trying to access our site on Chrome (as well as people linking to us). Even back then I knew not to trust Google ads!
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