Don MartiThis may get me kicked out of #Linux fan club, but what if it's not a coincidence that some of the biggest Linux-using companies are also some of the biggest #scamCulture / #enshittification companies?
In other news, #scamCulture is everywhere. Some good recent links to scams enabled by Big Tech...
After reading through the last of the 2024 links from the link gathering script, now I think
1. I agree with @Chronotope about impact of malice by tech billionaires
2. The shift to a #lowTrustSociety is a whole big thing. So many stories of #scamCulture and bottom-up adaptations to it
Joseph Lim 
#Scams know no limits
" #Thailand's passive #legal #enforcement is partly to blame.. adversarial legal sys relies on complaints b4 investigations can begin iso proactive approach to prevent scams.. Using #celebrities to #endorse & participate in schemes hilights a troubling trend in 🇹🇭 #scamculture.. scams gain unwarranted credibility by elevating celebs to executives w'in cos.. when things go wrong, they often distance themselves fr #responsibility. This is #unacceptable"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2883178/scams-know-no-limits
" #Thailand's passive #legal #enforcement is partly to blame.. adversarial legal sys relies on complaints b4 investigations can begin iso proactive approach to prevent scams.. Using #celebrities to #endorse & participate in schemes hilights a troubling trend in 🇹🇭 #scamculture.. scams gain unwarranted credibility by elevating celebs to executives w'in cos.. when things go wrong, they often distance themselves fr #responsibility. This is #unacceptable"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2883178/scams-know-no-limits
Scams know no limits
<p>For decades, Thailand has been plagued by financial scams, often in the form of Ponzi schemes, leaving countless citizens financially devastated. The evolving sophistication of these scams, driven by advances in digital communication and legal loopholes, continues to outwit all consumer protection enforcers.</p>
Just looking at recent Internet news and it looks like #scamCulture is everywhere... https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2024-09-28/
People are going to have to revisit habit changes that we made in the days of a more honest Internet. "Users don't change defaults" was a useful heuristic in the days of "create more value than you capture" but not so much when growth hacking is the default.
just in case we have a slow news week coming up...anybody doing anything for the 1-year anniversary of the FBI public recommendation to use an ad blocker on search ads?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/
(imho this could have been a real "never waste a crisis" moment for Google—they could have done something on scams like what Bill Gates did with Trustworthy Computing on security. But that didn't happen. Maybe it's harder to weed out #scamCulture at a company than to introduce security culture?)
Daniel Hinojosa 
Hard to understand "Web Environment Integrity" in isolation—it's part of a full stack
* in-browser ad features ("Privacy Sandbox")
* hiding from the advertiser where the ad ran ("Performance Max")
* working with sites that advertisers would not choose to sponsor ("confidential" entries in sellers.json)
Yes, it's a surveillance dystopia, but not as you might imagine them from fiction - more of a #shortTermism and #scamCulture thing. #WebEnvironmentIntegrity
The b2b scam is also pretty simple: sneak a good ad onto a bad site. Easiest way to sell an absolute shitload of ad impressions is show the user an entire pirated movie and refresh the ads every 30 seconds. Straight-up bot impressions are also part of this. The b2b scam is basically find something that no reasonable advertiser would choose to sponsor, and throw a bunch of creepy tracking on it to make the ads on it saleable #scamCulture
this is the problem when a whole industry is so permeated by #scamCulture -- criticism of the scams looks like criticism of the whole thing