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The most surprising thing about this is that someone as internet-savvy as Doctorow doesn't just skip over the ads but instead clicks on them. That's just asking
by joemi 4y ago
The most surprising thing about this is that someone as internet-savvy as Doctorow doesn't just skip over the ads but instead clicks on them. That's just asking for trouble.
- polotics 4y agoWow so the victim is guilty because they were not clever/awake/focussed enough? How does this logic work for victims of other crimes and misdemeanours?
- luckylion 4y ago> How does this logic work for victims of other crimes and misdemeanours? If a security expert has "password123" as their password for all services, everyone would be surprised unless he had been previously identified as a fool. That someone tech-savvy doesn't use an adblocker is surprising to me, too.
- doctor_eval 4y agoWell, in his defence - he was really FUCKING hungry!
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoHappens to me, occasionally, and I’m as smart/cynical as they come. It’s embarrassing, but I have managed to avoid being really ripped off. The worst one, was many years ago, when I responded to a “your domain name is available” email. I got the domain, eventually, but I probably paid double its worth, and had to get into an e-shouting match with the scammers, who were trying to lease me the name, as opposed to sell it to me (they do this, so they can quadruple the cost, as soon as you set up some infrastructure on the name). They gave it to me, in the end, because I made it clear that I was gonna be one hell of a PItA to keep as a “customer.” Welcome to “being human.”
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoI think you're missing the point: a journalist with an interest in internet things and "chokepoint capitalism" comes across an everyday example of these, and writes about it, using his experience as a starting point, is not a surprising outcome at all. Of course he's savvy, that's how he's placed to explain it to less savvy people. Of course he could just avoid it. You or I might (with a 98% success rate maybe), and then get on with our internet-savvy day job. But doing this is his internet-savvy day job. And good that it is someone's.
- int_19h 4y agoGoogle very intentionally made ads to look like a part of the search results. The reason why we know this is intentional is because it wasn't always like that.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoIt's important for us tech-savvy folks to be reminded of the jungle that exists out there beyond the technological walls of safety that our hard earned knowledge has afforded us. And that those of least means all live outside those walls.