The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.
We computer people have been warning about lack of transparency in devices, software and services for as long as I can remember.
It's happened with EV charging poles. And then people not looking and just going ahead and doing payments on that fraudulent site.
@jan
What I don't get with QR code scams on EV chargers. These things usually have displays, don't they? Why there is a sticker?
@zoetek @flxtr @jan @s1m0n4 @angelastella
This practice also leads to rampant use of junk domains and tracking strings. In my day you registered proper domains and created simple, readable URLs. Now they hide URLs under QR codes and append long strings to every link. This helps to confuse URLs and further obfuscate users from being able to look at a link/URL and quickly ascertain its legitimacy. They have created a scammer/phisher's paradise, at the behest of upper-management and corporations.
Ned Yeung
Ángela Stella Matutina
s1m0n4
Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️♂️
trusty falxter 🧠
zoetek