William Lieurance
Tekniquelly correctHere's a Google ad impersonating the brew.sh website but linking to a malware site.
Remember, it is always 100% morally and ethically OK to use ad blockers.
jonathankoren™@tek it’s so weird that it says Sponsored brew.sh but the link goes to brewe.sh
How does that happen?
twifkak@jonathankoren @tek I investigated this for a similar Google ad scam that was imitating Costco to get credit card numbers. When Googlebot fetches the web page, it redirects to brew.sh instead of serving the scam. That seems to give Google just enough confidence to consider brew.sh the "canonical" domain; perhaps because it's the most popular. I dunno about Ads, but Search describes a bit of the process here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/canonicalization
Don MartiMalwarebytes has more info on fake domains showing up in search ads -- in this case it's fake ads for ads.google.com but looks like the same principle (?)
@twifkak @jonathankoren @tek (and yes, "experienced advertisers" in the USA are more likely to run an ad blocker than average https://www.ghostery.com/blog/privacy-report-advertisers-and-adblockers )
Kallisti@tek AdBlockers are a security product
Rachael L@tek you have to wonder how many google engineers setting up a new laptop have literally used this source for their homebrew.
Viss@tek this is why security folks stroke out when devs yolo it and curl pipe to bash blindly.
Quoll 
Tim Lavoie@tim_lavoie @tek see you SAY that, and what happen is actually this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-infects-18-000-script-kiddies-with-fake-malware-builder/
James Richardson@tek I remember a while back if you searched Google for F-Droid it did the same thing. A sponsored result led to an unofficial site that was not the actual F-Droid one. Shady AF.
Now I just use my SearxNG instance.
Jérôme@tek god I just installed brew on a new computer last week. Now I have to double check I was on the right website.
Colin B.🇨🇦
MarkAssPandi (tiny)@tek I find it especially fucking insane they allow changing how link is displayed in the ad
Someone will try to search for homebrew
Sees this
But they try to be careful, so they look over the title and look at the link itself
Link is good, so they proceed
And then they won't check the bar above, since they already looked at the link in the search engine so there should be no need
But oops, it's a different FUCKING LINK
Someone will try to search for homebrew
Sees this
But they try to be careful, so they look over the title and look at the link itself
Link is good, so they proceed
And then they won't check the bar above, since they already looked at the link in the search engine so there should be no need
But oops, it's a different FUCKING LINK
auroroboros@tek just use linux and you wont have to install the package manager.
Mono@tek @auroroboros I use linux and I still have homebrew, though I don't remember the last time I used it
Emmett Lee
Patrick Morris Miller@tek Some ads are malware targeting your computer. ALL ads are malware targeting your brain.
schrotthaufen
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Old Man in the Shoe@Darkphoenix @schrotthaufen @tek @blogdiva Android is made by the world's largest advertising company.
Mike Taylor 🦕@Darkphoenix @schrotthaufen @tek @blogdiva uBlock Origin. Literally the first thing I do on any device is download Firefox and make it the default browser, then install uBlock Origin.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@mike @Darkphoenix @schrotthaufen @tek my only difference is that i use librewolf, a degoogled and privacy oriented firefox. but yeah, that unblock goes up immediately.
@blogdiva @Darkphoenix @schrotthaufen @tek (Actually I also use LibreWolf; I just didn't want to add that extra layer of complexity to my instructions. I still keep regular Firefox around, as I have to use it for things like Prime Video and Netflix that won't work in a privacy-respecting way.)
On My Walk@Darkphoenix
Also consider adding the TrackerControl app to your android device https://trackercontrol.org/
@schrotthaufen @tek @blogdiva
Also consider adding the TrackerControl app to your android device https://trackercontrol.org/
@schrotthaufen @tek @blogdiva
Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️@onmywalk @Darkphoenix @schrotthaufen @tek @blogdiva
This one's good. Aside from blocking trackers it also allows users to totally cut off some app's Internet access (if this app didn't try circumventing it specifically), so apps that only connect to the Internet to fetch ads and tracking users can be used without users being tracked or annoyed by ads.
Note that some of the blocking options may result in some app functionality being broken (iirc it once suggested Amazon S3 as a blocking candidate and I'm baffled 
)
This one's good. Aside from blocking trackers it also allows users to totally cut off some app's Internet access (if this app didn't try circumventing it specifically), so apps that only connect to the Internet to fetch ads and tracking users can be used without users being tracked or annoyed by ads.
Note that some of the blocking options may result in some app functionality being broken (iirc it once suggested Amazon S3 as a blocking candidate and I'm baffled
)
Ned Yeung@tek Very similar to how AI Google results are serving up phone numbers to phishers instead of official company contacts.
Alex Gordienko@tek @ChrisFerguson I haven’t used Google search for so long that I managed to forget about its existence😱
Daniel Howard 🌻@tek Sometimes, I suspect that `curl | sudo bash` may not be a secure way to install software.
Gentleman Technologist@tek google search is effectively malware now.
I switched to DDG last year and it was better. Switched to Kagi last week and that's been amazing.
delProfundo
Kevin RussellBlock Google, get better every day at blocking google. Don't use their software, don't visit their sites.
Don't use Chrome, don't use Chrome named other things.
@tek holy shit I’ve used that website 😅 what should I do?!
Ray InglesIt takes a bit of work, but you can set up the "Search Engine" in your browser (Chrome or Firefox for sure) to:
ttps://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
This disables AI, *and* ads. It's almost like useful Google again!
wraptile@tek been reporting clear scam ads I see every single day on Instagram and they do nothing about it. Finally got reVanced to patch out the ads.
https://fosstodon.org/@wraptile/113707170080345773
When they claim they'll be able to contain AI damage yet can't contain scam ads you could detect in a single line of code 🙄
wraptile (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Instagram has been infested with these fake investment ads where: > "celebrity forgot turn off their mic during an interview - it'll shock you what they said" > "Investing into fake investment/crypto website made me millions - it's so easy click here!". I've made an experiment and tried to report all I could find and today I see this on every report 👇 #Meta is one of the leading AI companies and they can't block these extremely rudimentary scam ads? Disgusting incompetence. #instagram
⚝ Mirko ⚝@tek Who the af clicks on sponsored links? Especially with the title of an developer? 😳