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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

This isn't really a novel approach. Ads with fake links that lead to malware is basically the state of Google search results for every damn thing now.

Everyone should adblock, but especially low involvement actors like Google until and unless they sort out their malware, fraud, and scam ads. (They won't.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

So you mean to say the device made by the company known for harvesting userdata for advertising purposes... puts you at risk of being served more ads? Gee... who'd have seen that coming. Malicious or not, it's not really all that surprising.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They’ve sold over 20 million of them