Seems like the word for this is "complicit"
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
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I don't see how the yearly tech support I do with my parents at Christmas will not one day converge to an outright ban of the internet. I am now demoing the level of sofistication of AI powered scams, telling them that it is now entirely possible they will get a VIDEO CALL from me that's not actually me asking for God knows what in a very convincing way using my face and voice. I am scared and this close to setting u…
My guess is the already-existing trend towards walled gardens will simply continue. When a public space is dangerous, people retreat into "safe" enclosed spaces. - "Never download anything unless it's from the Apple App Store" - "Never buy anything unless you're on amazon.com" - "Dont use the internet outside of ChatGPT"
> - "Never buy anything unless you're on amazon.com"
Might as well do AliExpress, same quality control/misleading descriptions but lower prices.
Is there even a trustworthy online shopping site/platform nowadays?
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I half joke that the term “parental controls” will change meaning from restrictions set by parents on children to the opposite: restrictions now set up by children to protect their parents.
I have the feeling that there's a sandwiched generation who will have to protect both their parents and their children from these things.
"You know you live in a predatory system when..."
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I order a lot from Amazon--especially over the past year for house-related reasons. I just haven't had (touch wood) the apparently pervasive problems that some people seem to experience. Maybe I'm more selective about not picking whatever is cheapest regardless of brand that I've never heard of.
My preferred brands on Amazon are Qweasdooo, I999admm, and Growthyy. Fantastic stuff at unbeatable prices! /s
Those sound like pretty legit brands, last time I checked (admittedly a while ago) the slop was mostly [A-Z]{6}
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GM is not liable when your wheels fall off because a criminal removed the nuts.
Then why do they have locks on the doors? They know there are these things called criminals. MSFT did nothing to stop spyware for at least a decade.
Car door locks are wafer locks and can be defeated sometimes with a flathead screwdriver.
Security is about "good enough" though so that's usually sufficient.
Most of the worms of the early 2000s worked by exploiting vulnerabilities that Microsoft had already found, patched, and deployed, but users, including giant businesses just didn't install the patches.
Bonzai Buddy and the days of the toolbar didn't happen because Windows is insecure, it happened because at a fundamental level the only difference between spyware and a perfectly valid and runnable program is intent, and an OS has no insight into the user's mind. When you doubleclick on a desktop icon, Windows cannot know whether you totally intend to send most of your precious data to a sketchy server, or whether you have no idea what you are running.
Microsoft is moving more towards preventing users from running whatever they want.
"The user is god and the OS serves them" and "Never let the user run spyware or malicious code" are mutually exclusive, so be careful what you wish for.
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I get 50% AI generated tai chi promising strength gain, weight loss and enlightenment, the other 50% israel sponsored ads assuring me people in gaza are not starving at all and completely healthy
Remember broadcast TV, early in the morning or late at night? Infomercials for all kinds of scams from buying real estate with zero down, crap products that didn't work...
It's still like that! Late Night Broadcast TV still exists and is as weird as it ever was!
Arguably weirder, since stuff like this is on sometimes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15737708/
It's a low-budget horror host show which was made for streaming, and coincidentally ended up on the air late on Friday nights.
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The night before this story was published I was pondering what percentage of Youtube ads I was watching were scams -- not 100%, but it was higher than 50%. Which raises questions about semi-legitimate looking items might actually be soft scams or some kind of funny billing stuff going on. What percent of the global economy is scams? Sure, the investment manager charging 1% a year to put all of your retirement savings…
>but it was higher than 50% I don't relate with this at all. I get ads for normal insurance companies, uber eats, air bnb, and gacha games to name a few. None of them are scams, so I can't understand understand why so many people on hacker news complain about scams. Do you live in a region with barely any ad inventory?
"Algorithms". Even if your region has plenty of ad inventory, Google's micro-targeting can mean even people in the same household see wildly different subsets of the ad inventory. You could just be lucky and aren't in any of the micro-target "demographics" scams want (or at least, can afford) right now.
Micro-Targeting is one of the worst mistakes of the entire advertising industry and we'll be probably dealing with its consequences for a while to come.
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#358It's very clear that social media is dead. My mom sometimes tells me to go look at a picture on Facebook. I'm astonished that there is literally nothing on there to see but ads. I and anyone I know only post stories on Instagram at best. My feed is JAM packed with ads and cringe people still trying to be influencers. Threads is a rounding error. X is blah Meta is desperate to move to AI because they know this. They s…
Meta doesn't know anything, the last successful "product" that they built (as opposed to buying) was splitting off Messenger into a separate app. Since then, they invested heavily in providing free internet that failed (Free Basics), wasted a bunch of money on some sort of a global cryptocurrency that never even launched (Libra/Diem), tried to invent a whole new market with VR and it went nowhere, and now they're goi…
FB is an extractive institution. The business model is to get people addicted and profit from it. It’s little different in my eyes from drug dealing. Well, I guess there’s a lot more harm done by FB
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A little ironic when Amazon is filled to the brim with scams.
Not sure how this works on Amazon, but Bol.com (dutch "amazon competitor") sells a lot of crap too. Stuff that sometimes has the images and literal description taken from e.g. aliexpress. People literally re-sell stuff from chinese webshops on there with profit. Technically, on Bol.com, a EU-platform, EU consumer protection is in place. So if a product breaks within guarantee terms, is dangerous, never gets delivered…
> If some-guy sells a TV that explodes, and can't be found or held responsible, then make Bol.com responsible.
Shouldn't the manufacturer have some liability?
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#360It's also full of people selling counterfeit money as well. I am shocked how they allow it, there's a guy with a profile that shows him printing and testing his "bills" along with a link to buy them. Not trying to hide it, no code words, nothing.
The same on Tiktok. I have reported it multiple times but every time they say "no violation".
(facebook wouldn't copy a URL, but here he is on Tiktok): https://www.tiktok.com/@blastedbills