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I was wondering for quite some time how these scammers find their way to less experienced users. Turns out I've been using adblocker for so long that it didn't

by r3bl 8y ago

I was wondering for quite some time how these scammers find their way to less experienced users. Turns out I've been using adblocker for so long that it didn't even occur to me that the scammers were purchasing Google ads.

ashleyn 8y ago
I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the modern web. Any small to midsize blog had a 1-in-4 chance of crashing the browser with fake "YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS" ads that pull you right out of what you were reading. Extremely irritating and it's no shock to me why Brave was conceptualised.
- Iolaum 8y ago
  Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
  - jhoh 8y ago
    Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).
    - philipov 8y ago
      What options are available for iphone?
      - scarface74 8y ago
        iOS has a built in “content blocking” framework. Third party Ad blockers basically submit blocking rules to iOS in JSON format and the ad blockers work both in Safari and in apps that use the newest WebView. The advantage is that the third party ad blockers aren’t able to intercept your web browsing directly and can’t invade your privacy. I use 1Blocker.
        Rjevski 8y ago
        1+ for 1Blocker, although I also run Adblock Plus in parallel.
        deleted 8y ago
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        fasafsaf3 8y ago
        Firefox Focus is free.
tunap 8y ago
Even with an adblocker, you can still see Goog's ad results in search. Amidst the ubiquitous Amazon & Ebay results, or in lieu of, many results are scammers... who pay for top results in other ways(SEO).Ever search for Windows Licenses pre-10? If I didn't know better I would think $25 was the normal price for genuine COAs. I wonder if Dregslist will ever have a similar 'drain the swamp' moment w/ their scammers...
- tgsovlerkhgsel 8y ago
  No idea which ad blocker you tried, but uBlock Origin will happily take care of those ads.
  - tunap 8y ago
    Heh, my not-so-obvious implication was search results are in essence ads themselves. I use NS & uBO, I wouldn't use the web w/o them.

by r3bl 8y ago

ashleyn 8y ago

I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the modern web. Any small to midsize blog had a 1-in-4 chance of crashing the browser with fake "YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS" ads that pull you right out of what you were reading. Extremely irritating and it's no shock to me why Brave was conceptualised.

Iolaum 8y ago
Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
- jhoh 8y ago
  Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).
  - philipov 8y ago
    What options are available for iphone?
    - scarface74 8y ago
      iOS has a built in “content blocking” framework. Third party Ad blockers basically submit blocking rules to iOS in JSON format and the ad blockers work both in Safari and in apps that use the newest WebView. The advantage is that the third party ad blockers aren’t able to intercept your web browsing directly and can’t invade your privacy. I use 1Blocker.
      - Rjevski 8y ago
        1+ for 1Blocker, although I also run Adblock Plus in parallel.
        deleted 8y ago
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      - fasafsaf3 8y ago
        Firefox Focus is free.

tunap 8y ago

Even with an adblocker, you can still see Goog's ad results in search. Amidst the ubiquitous Amazon & Ebay results, or in lieu of, many results are scammers... who pay for top results in other ways(SEO).Ever search for Windows Licenses pre-10? If I didn't know better I would think $25 was the normal price for genuine COAs. I wonder if Dregslist will ever have a similar 'drain the swamp' moment w/ their scammers...

tgsovlerkhgsel 8y ago
No idea which ad blocker you tried, but uBlock Origin will happily take care of those ads.
- tunap 8y ago
  Heh, my not-so-obvious implication was search results are in essence ads themselves. I use NS & uBO, I wouldn't use the web w/o them.