🇺🇦 Sviatoslav SydorenkoFeb 22
Mike McQuaid

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.

Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/1074

Google keyword `brew` points to a malicious site with false Homebrew install instructions · Issue #1074 · Homebrew/install

your problem was from running the official install or uninstall script? you carefully read the output and it was not a git fetch or other connection issue to GitHub (that Homebrew has no control ov...

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Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 22
@mikemcquaid
Is an ad, right?
Show threadpartizanFeb 22

@EndlessMason @mikemcquaid It is always an ad!

Would be nice to take them to court for this shit.

Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 22
@partizan @mikemcquaid
Sometimes it's just a slop article that does really well at SEO
Show threadTroed SångbergFeb 22

@mikemcquaid I truly doubt this is something Google wants to fix. I _just_ managed to stop my mother from subscribing to a fraud service the other week when searching Google Play store for the networked camera she had just bought turned up a paid for app placement above the manufacturer's own app.

Like Facebook and the celebrity scam ads they're making money from it. No problem detected.

Show threadMoses IzumiFeb 22
@troed @mikemcquaid
As much as I dislike fundamentalist doomsday preachers, I still think that calling these companies the spawns of Satan is the only responsible course of action.
Show threadMinkiuFeb 22
@mikemcquaid the solution is simple, just pay more for the ad/promote slot. /s
Show threadEmilio ʕ̡̢̡ʘ̅͟͜͡ʘ̲̅ʔ̢̡̢🇩🇰Feb 22
@mikemcquaid @bagder Advertising is how Google makes its billions—to hell with them.
Show threadnjsgFeb 22
@mikemcquaid This is the same Google which is so uncapable of handling SPAM that they ended their USENET peering instead of curbing abuse of Google Groups for advertising.
Show threadMoses IzumiFeb 22
My wishes that the cybersecurity people demonized Google Chrome before it could become dominant just took on a whole different meaning.

Google does the same spying shit as Ask/Babylon Toolbar and BonziBuddy, but in a program that people actually like using.

This is the same company that kicked the official Newpipe (3rd party Youtube client) off of Play Store, while letting malware/adware-infested versions roam free.

#degoogle

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/116113777201539870
Show threadRaketen KniffoFeb 22

@mikemcquaid Isn't it possible to report it here?

https://developers.google.com/search/help/report-quality-issues?hl=de

If we do it together, we should have some impact, right?

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Show threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦Feb 22
@mikemcquaid good luck, I ran into this when searching for “esta” where the first hit is a malicious site tehat bought the keyword at google and not the USG site.
Show threadstefanctFeb 22
@mikemcquaid anybody who sees ads on the internet have their security compromised.
Show threaddusoftFeb 22
@stefanct @mikemcquaid and that's why FBI used to recommend ad blockers as malware/phishing prevention measure.
Show threaddusoftFeb 22
@mikemcquaid META earns similarly hundreds of millions from scam, spam, malware, phishing. They just don't care. Neither does Google.
Show threadPaul HoffmanFeb 22
@mikemcquaid Reported to some of the right people at Google, and they have already dealt with it, but they note that as soon as they did it popped up differently. It is definitely now on their radar.
Show threadAnalog AIFeb 23

@mikemcquaid

@AutisticInnovator : any tips based on your experience?