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The least they could do is show subdomains, so that when you click on squarespace.com it doesn't take you to a virus. They will show https: but not subdomains? Excellent UI.
PSA: Stop using Google for search.
My gf told me they blocked all addons at work, including adblock. Told her to recommend to the IT department that adblock be mandatory on all computers. Ad networks make too much money not to look the other way on malvertising.
One of the things which really annoys me is the idea that it's every acceptable to blindly "curl -fsSL" bullshit .sh scripts. Even large companies have adopted this crap and you don't know whether there's any digital signing going on or whether they're downright stealing anything you have of value. It's not difficult to generate a rpm, deb, tgz and relevant detatched .asc PGP signature or if you hate PGP use openssh…
One of the things which really annoys me is the idea that it's every acceptable to blindly "curl -fsSL" bullshit .sh scripts. Even large companies have adopted this crap and you don't know whether there's any digital signing going on or whether they're downright stealing anything you have of value. It's not difficult to generate a rpm, deb, tgz and relevant detatched .asc PGP signature or if you hate PGP use openssh…
Trusting distro maintainers to curate software in their repos can help, if you only ever install from the curated repos. If there's some software not in the repo which you need, then you can't rely on that trust. "Stable" distros like Debian are less likely to have all the necessary software in their repos, and the difficulty of getting software into a curated repo itself creates legitimate software that doesn't get into repos. That means "is this software in my distro's repository" can give a good signal that some software is safe, but can't give much signal that the software is unsafe.
Feels like the author is using Google for the first time? This has been a feature as long as the ads have. You can literally find this exact same blog post from approximately 20 years ago. Absolutely nothing has changed since then! Well, I lied. A lot has changed. Drive-by attacks are gone, largely thanks to Google. 15 years ago you would’ve been hacked immediately after you clicked the ad.
No they say there they block ads, and I do as well, so maybe they're not used to seeing this kind of crap.