Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act
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#3Direct link to Google's announcement: https://www.blog.google/products/ads/restricting-ads-third-p...
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#4I was wondering for quite some time how these scammers find their way to less experienced users.
Turns out I've been using adblocker for so long that it didn't even occur to me that the scammers were purchasing Google ads.
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#5I was wondering for quite some time how these scammers find their way to less experienced users. Turns out I've been using adblocker for so long that it didn't even occur to me that the scammers were purchasing Google ads.
I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the modern web. Any small to midsize blog had a 1-in-4 chance of crashing the browser with fake "YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS" ads that pull you right out of what you were reading. Extremely irritating and it's no shock to me why Brave was conceptualised.
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#6I was wondering for quite some time how these scammers find their way to less experienced users. Turns out I've been using adblocker for so long that it didn't even occur to me that the scammers were purchasing Google ads.
I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the modern web. Any small to midsize blog had a 1-in-4 chance of crashing the browser with fake "YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS" ads that pull you right out of what you were reading. Extremely irritating an…
Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the modern web. Any small to midsize blog had a 1-in-4 chance of crashing the browser with fake "YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS" ads that pull you right out of what you were reading. Extremely irritating an…
Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).
What options are available for iphone?
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#9I just listened to an interesting podcast about these scams [1], but in this case they were mainly making outbound calls. The podcasters actually travel to India to track them down, and it's kind of crazy the way they run their operation.
What I thought was really funny was the scammers literally type "Zeus troan found" into the console (typo included) and people are falling for this and giving them money. Crazy just to let someone remote into your desktop though..
[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/102-long-distance-part...
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Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).
What options are available for iphone?
iOS has a built in “content blocking” framework. Third party Ad blockers basically submit blocking rules to iOS in JSON format and the ad blockers work both in Safari and in apps that use the newest WebView.
The advantage is that the third party ad blockers aren’t able to intercept your web browsing directly and can’t invade your privacy.
I use 1Blocker.