By buying their own search terms, Apple is ensuring that no bad actor can do it and tarnish their brand, my guess is it happened before and Apple decided to outbid everyone else to ensure it didn’t happen again.
Not just bad actors, but competitors. A competing brand can also target those search terms so that they become the first result, which is a common tactic on Google search.
The worst thing is that google does not take down those ads even after reporting them. This has been an issue for years affecting the financial industry too. There was an ad for a fake cryptocurrency exchange and even the whole crypto community with maybe hundreds of active members was not able to do anything with it.
It's the same as those Mr beast fake scam channels, there ads claiming people they'll win 1 thousand dollars, Google let's these fake scam channels as ads sit there, I've reported this scam 100 times now nothing happens
I come from a time millions of years ago when they first started putting ads in search results, and I'm still so angry at it that I refuse to ever click a Google ad link no matter what.
Yeah I mean people were falling for them but not everyone, I've recently installed Gimp after a reinstall so am going to have to check I'm not hacked as usually I tend to not use the ad links anyway but I have been more trusting when the URL matches, which is somehow the case now. Ads now are only distinguishable by that little "Ad" label whereas the links used to be a different colour and they'd add a background colour to ads, now it's something much easier to click by mistake. It's definitely not the same Ads problem from 20 years ago, we're been educated on that but this definitely means we need a little re-education.
3:50 about how they (may) have done it: Maybe the original api for editing the visible-URL still works and it just was removed from the UI or they used the DEL character that was collapsed for the visible url but purified out for the link
Apple buys the ad slot because, not only could a potential bad actor buy that search term, but a competitor could as well. They don't want the first result when you search "Apple" to be an ad for a Dell Laptop, so they buy out the search term.
Explicit ads are nothing compared to malware ads Kinda ironic that you get demonetization for video that dealt with that matter... Or video gets nuked But what if.... We reupload gachimuchi as ads?
Oh god, you just gave me ptsd of the time when smartphones did not have adblocker and every second youtube ad was an autodownloaded virus or trojan. Those damn malware ads are the reason I don't even dare to watch ads for content creators I like and want to support
As for why Google is silent; they don't want to draw attention to it. If the last decade has taught me anything, it's that if you can push something to the background of people's memory for a month, 99% of people will stop caring. Another month, another 99%. And by then, you can quietly deal with it in your own way. Which may include doing nothing at all, if you're rich enough.
i bet they used the old api for setting custom urls that was "removed" on the frontend but still had functionality on the backend. ive done this before it's very common
The Google Ad one seems like Stupidly old news, but from talking to people on discord, I came to find out that there was ALOT of people who were falling for those ads
A few months ago I built a new computer. I had a Msi graphics card so I downloaded MSI afterburner. A few days later I noticed I was charged on some Google ads account and my Amex was charged thousands without me authorization it. I contacted Google and Amex separately. I now just put 2 together. Why would Google not tell me about this when talking with them about this Google ads account made in my name so I can watch out for other strange activities in my bank accounts. Last week another of my cards got hacked. I now realize that these people prob have all my information.
A practice I've had for several years at this point, practically learned from the earliest days on the internet... NEVER CLICK ON ADS..... There. Wisdom from a bygone age.
I think the most plausible way the display URL was changed in the Google results is via data injection. Basically, you would run the HTTP request through a proxy and modify the value for the display URL before passing it on to the Google servers. It would be in Google's best interest to ensure this value is not modified or accessible, though it is something that can be easily overlooked when they previously restricted changing the display URL.
Same, when I heard that it was once possible, I instantly thought that google did not update the data input of the initial function and people just add the displayed url as parameter
I think the most plausible way the display URL was changed in the Google results is via data injection. Basically, you would run the HTTP request through a proxy and modify the value for the display URL before passing it on to the Google servers. It would be in Google's best interest to ensure this value is not modified or accessible, though it is something that can be easily overlooked when they previosly restricted changing the display URL.
the irony of being served two ads, from companies offering to improve online ad presence, on this specific video.... it's just beautiful irony. AI can inadvertently be giving us valuable hints right now for things that need to be looked further into.
I've seen multiple "featured results" recently that were direct download links to sketchy files. Like you click the link from the Google home page, and it started a download. One was due to a server configuration issue from a more or less reputable site, but the other was... less friendly seeming. I don't know why they let results show up that directly link to or auto-download files.
Combination of your browser settings and search engine optimization that "Google" has nothing to do with. google is not hacking anyone, their own ignorance is.
All of this is linked to an education issue. People should be taught to ignore ads, phishing emails, etc..., we're in a world where people and corporations hate you, they will do everything they can to take your info and money.
Ah yes. Seytonic has met his quota. I was worked into a cold sweat for a moment, when I thought that you'd released a video without the word miscreant multiple times. Keep up the good work sir🧐
lol I was just bored and felt like watching Seytonic so I just got finished watching a random video of yours from a year ago. Perfect timing for a new vid
Remember when google said their motto is "don't be evil". I looked at wikipedia and it seems they haven't actually used that catchphrase in years. Makes sense.
A few months ago in school, we had to download a program to install an operating system in an usb (rufus) and the teacher and a lot of people downloaded it from an ad that was a clone of the official website. Apparently nothing happened but giving admin access to a random exe must have installed a backdoor. The only people who didn't install it are me (who had an adblocker) and some other people that noticed it
Wait! "Name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, account number" are "BASIC" customer info? Generally, phone number, name, and account number are sufficient to pass most T-mobile customer service reps to effect account takeover. And "widely available in marketing databases"? Personally identifiable information (PII) are the exact type of data that all kinds of privacy legislations specifically protect! Why are they widely available for money?
I use ad blockers to prevent these types of sites from showing up, or if I'm using a web browser that doesn't have one, I make sure to look for the word "Ad" before clicking on a link (and besides, they're the first ones to show up). I've been doing this for many years now as I don't want to accidentally click on an advertisement.
I have been getting a lot of seemingly randomly generated trash sites these past 2 years. Mostly when I try to find older local news articles or some niche russian stalker mods related stuff.
Google is also completely freaking out currently over ChatGPT, and MS buying it for use in Bing. While they have their own AI tech, for some incredibly stupid reason - they haven't thought to adapt it to search queries. They literally had to call the original Google founders back in to ask for advice 🤦♂️
Yea chat gpt has solved problems or technical questions google couldnt provide the answer to. I hope microsoft doesnt fk this up with bing or however theyre going to use it. Google can suck it
not really stupid google is too big and got everything to lose while bing is 2% of market share and got everything to gain manipulating results based on transforms model in the current state (what you see with ChatGPT) is to risky for their whole business model as marketing company all what i can say for now as don't have time to go in-depth that things are: - not as great as the hype makes them looks like - it's way more complicated in case of google due to their size
Also, the US government is currently taking Google to court for anti-trust issues with them prioritizing ads that were paid for directly to them. Doesn't make much sense to me..bc obviously they'd do that...but as I understand it, it's kinda similar to the old MS browser Explorer anti-trust case.
1:31 the reason that apple has an ad for their own brand is the same reason why this video exists: they protect themself and their brand against fakes and competitors in top-rankings. I dont really like apple but this is actually a "wise decision" to do so.
Hi! I would like to say that I personally experienced something like this before. It was for RUclips. The first link was an ad, and it had the exact same URL. Thankfully, the antivirus caught it, so I never got to see the website itself, but just so you know, they're not just advertising on downloadable programs search pages...
A few years ago I would trick Riot Games into giving me already taken club tags by typing the name I wanted with a small typo and then contacting Riot Games Support to tell them I made a mistake and then tell them the name I actually wanted , they would give it to me. Later they added a system that would check if the name is already in use so you wouldn't trick riot employees that easily. So I would send them the name with invisible characters and if the employee copy pasted it I would get the name I wanted. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happened with gimp.
I never click on ads whenever I am on a machine without adblock. This is one of the reasons. The other reason is that if I like a site, I don't want them payung for my click, they are probably in the top 3 results anyway. There is no reason to click ever.
my friend accidentally typed “youtu” or something like that and the real domain for youtube came up but when she clicked on it, it would send her to a fake microsoft alert website
Why do you have that halo around all white surfaces. I don’t know how to explain it, but if you look on a white screen from this RUclips video. There’s this a little oval on the screen. Does anyone know why he does it?
Buying your own search term on adsense makes sure you actually list as the top search result / perceived first result. Also hinders bad actors from doing so etc.
It could be possible that the google back end api for ads allows for that field to be changed, but the front end setup for it just doesn't allow that option, basically hiding that functionality from the end users, but forgot to actually remove it.
You can't figure out why google would demonetize you for petty stuff, but look the other way when advertisers do worse? I can explain it to you: financial motive. When they punish you, they get more money; if they punish them, they get less money. So they punish you to enrich themselves, and DON'T punish advertisers to (again) enrich themselves. As usual when trying to figure out motives, a good bet is to 'follow the money" (not always the motivation, but more often than not). If google lost money for allowing bad actors to advertise, they would stop allowing bad actors to advertise; however, they gain money by allowing bad actors, so why would they ever stop them? Only someone silly enough to think that corporations would ever do the right thing would be confused by this; if you are smart enough to realize corporations would do the worst, most heinous things for money, and hurt innocents for mere pennies, then this should all make sense. Corporations will do what makes them money; the only time they ever do the right things is when that happens to make them money; doing the right thing is NEVER their motivation (legally it cannot be), their motivation is ALWAYS money at all costs (as is legally required). So hopefully now, everyone understand why corporations like google pretend to do the right thing, but only ever do so when it benefits them, and they will gladly do the WRONG thing whenever that benefits them. If you want to understand the behavior of a corporation, study the behavior of a narcissistic psychopath, and you will be amazed at how similar they are, and how their it explains their past actions.
To make these Ads different from the rest of the search results, they should color them differently, put a green colored background around the Ad to show it's not a regular search item. Or how about making use of the empty whitespace to the right of the Search results, put all the ads they want there. It's completely unused area that could be filled with ads of some sort, instead of listing them right there with the rest of the search results. It really wouldn't be that hard to code that into the search page to display them all on the right hand side.
oh you mean how it was before? if i remember correctly, few years ago there was yellow color( either in name or in background i don't remember) for ads, but you won't misclick that if you saw it :p
I personally developed an immunity to advertisements and now ignore most of them. I assume most people are just like me. Key to keep people visiting those sites is to camouflage them as genuine search results.
3:59 And that's where you were wrong. When Google said protective they meant protective of their ad revenues. Another way to look at it is they protect more the ad makers than you the consumer. RUclips ads *ehem *ehem
my wife nearly had her credit card info taken from a fake clothes shopping website. I only clocked it when i went to the legit website and didnt see any of the same "deals" which i then quickly stopped her entering her details! All because i have Ad Blocker on my Firefox i dont get the ads on my searches.
When it comes to the google search for gimp, i got a theory. The malicious actors just asked for a redirect. You can't do it on your own anymore but i don't think anything prevents you from asking a rep to allow the redirect. And what's stopping them from granting a redirect?
5:33 I was in one of their buildings once and saw an adapter thing or device that had like 15 cables hanging out of it (among them the old Apple connector, lightning, Mini USB, micro USB, USB-C, etc.)
I literally found the afterburner phishing site good 3-4 months ago, sent a message towards msi about it, to try and make them aware of it and perhaps they could've changed the design of their download for afterburner but received no response
this is one of the reasons i switched to linux you can download software with one command and do not have to go to shady websites and click one of the 100 download buttons im glad microsoft is finally catching up with winget the times i used it, it was very tedious though
Google just fired 12'000 Employees, perhaps a salty fired employee from the Ad team or from their illegal Google-Facebook-Ad-Price-CircIe-Jerk Team made the GIMP ad
funny this has been a problem for us OSRS players for years there was a fake runelite ad directing people to malware for a really long time and countless people fell for it
By buying their own search terms, Apple is ensuring that no bad actor can do it and tarnish their brand, my guess is it happened before and Apple decided to outbid everyone else to ensure it didn’t happen again.
Not just bad actors, but competitors. A competing brand can also target those search terms so that they become the first result, which is a common tactic on Google search.
Google does make it cheaper to buy ads when your products are very related. So it’s pretty easy for Apple to outbid the competition.
It's an expensive solution, but if anyone has the money for it Apple sure does.
@Seytonic cheap for what the cost would be from negative publicity. as long as the actors aren't triggering up the prices to astronomical prices 🤣
@@electrified0 a competitor *IS* a "bad actor" in this context
The worst thing is that google does not take down those ads even after reporting them. This has been an issue for years affecting the financial industry too. There was an ad for a fake cryptocurrency exchange and even the whole crypto community with maybe hundreds of active members was not able to do anything with it.
Google does not care about security and privacy
They make money from the ads, so why shoot their own revenue stream?
It's the same as those Mr beast fake scam channels, there ads claiming people they'll win 1 thousand dollars, Google let's these fake scam channels as ads sit there, I've reported this scam 100 times now nothing happens
I found examples of this kinda problem dating back almost 10 years...
@ContradictoryCrow because the alternatives also suck.
I come from a time millions of years ago when they first started putting ads in search results, and I'm still so angry at it that I refuse to ever click a Google ad link no matter what.
Same, im not so computer sec savvy person, i know very little to get me by, but i have always never clicked any ad since day dot of using the web.
The ad issue is 20 years old. Can't believe though there are still people not using ad blockers.
Exactly. This is what i was gonna type
@@manitoba-op4jx To fix problem #1 use Firefox instead of Chrome and for problem #2 use android instead of iOS. Easy
@@manitoba-op4jx Ever used Brave? I’ve got ad blocking on an iPad right now as of typing this in.
@@shapelessed Along with Brave, AdGuard works on Safari for free.
Yeah I mean people were falling for them but not everyone, I've recently installed Gimp after a reinstall so am going to have to check I'm not hacked as usually I tend to not use the ad links anyway but I have been more trusting when the URL matches, which is somehow the case now. Ads now are only distinguishable by that little "Ad" label whereas the links used to be a different colour and they'd add a background colour to ads, now it's something much easier to click by mistake. It's definitely not the same Ads problem from 20 years ago, we're been educated on that but this definitely means we need a little re-education.
3:50 about how they (may) have done it:
Maybe the original api for editing the visible-URL still works and it just was removed from the UI or they used the DEL character that was collapsed for the visible url but purified out for the link
Apple buys the ad slot because, not only could a potential bad actor buy that search term, but a competitor could as well. They don't want the first result when you search "Apple" to be an ad for a Dell Laptop, so they buy out the search term.
I'm not planning to work in cyber sec, but these videos are just the best on the whole platform
Thanks mate!! :)
@@Seytonic seriously, I second his statement mate.
I'm not planning to work in cyber sec, but these videos are just the best on the whole platform
the FBI : ey guys use an ad block
legit stores: * makes ad blocks inaccessible *
Tbh, google doesn't care whose ads they're pushing (even on YT), but they do care about where these ads end up
Explicit ads are nothing compared to malware ads
Kinda ironic that you get demonetization for video that dealt with that matter... Or video gets nuked
But what if.... We reupload gachimuchi as ads?
Oh god, you just gave me ptsd of the time when smartphones did not have adblocker and every second youtube ad was an autodownloaded virus or trojan. Those damn malware ads are the reason I don't even dare to watch ads for content creators I like and want to support
@@bitelaserkhalif you tube has those too
As for why Google is silent; they don't want to draw attention to it. If the last decade has taught me anything, it's that if you can push something to the background of people's memory for a month, 99% of people will stop caring. Another month, another 99%. And by then, you can quietly deal with it in your own way. Which may include doing nothing at all, if you're rich enough.
i bet they used the old api for setting custom urls that was "removed" on the frontend but still had functionality on the backend. ive done this before it's very common
Plausible explanation, if only Google would provide some clarity...
@@Seytonic if theres one route exposed then theres likely hundreds more, they wont mention the cause until theyre all patched up
Yes, this is the same as using T-mobile's old internet system for unlimited wifi. They keep these legacy systems in place, just out of view.
@@lominero5 any articl about this ?
Gotta give kudos to Seytonic for the consistency in his uploads. Great content too.
exactly
Thanks my dude :)
Gotta give kudos to Seytonic for the consistency in his uploads. Great content too.
.10 minuntes . same already,
I like your pfp
A commonly used curse word: Insta-flagged. Malware ads: Passed
The Google Ad one seems like Stupidly old news, but from talking to people on discord, I came to find out that there was ALOT of people who were falling for those ads
A few months ago I built a new computer. I had a Msi graphics card so I downloaded MSI afterburner. A few days later I noticed I was charged on some Google ads account and my Amex was charged thousands without me authorization it. I contacted Google and Amex separately. I now just put 2 together. Why would Google not tell me about this when talking with them about this Google ads account made in my name so I can watch out for other strange activities in my bank accounts. Last week another of my cards got hacked. I now realize that these people prob have all my information.
A practice I've had for several years at this point, practically learned from the earliest days on the internet... NEVER CLICK ON ADS..... There. Wisdom from a bygone age.
Thinking back, it was 2013-14 that I first spotted poisoned Google ads. And here we still are...
If there was an old function that could change the path, maybe they only removed it from the UI and not from the API or backend.
that’s my theory. the functionality was not completely removed.
Why would they even allow such a feature in the first place?! It's a free ticket for bad guys
The API still works apparently
I always bypass the Google ad links when using Google. good to see my distrust was completely justified.
I think the most plausible way the display URL was changed in the Google results is via data injection. Basically, you would run the HTTP request through a proxy and modify the value for the display URL before passing it on to the Google servers. It would be in Google's best interest to ensure this value is not modified or accessible, though it is something that can be easily overlooked when they previously restricted changing the display URL.
Exactly what I'm thinking, but usually Those requests have tokens that are precisely timed. So idk how they would manage that..
Even more plausible if the frontend and backend teams are separate.
@@ireallyreallyreallylikethisimg They could automate modifying those requests, using something like HTTP catcher or maybe Burp Suite.
Same, when I heard that it was once possible, I instantly thought that google did not update the data input of the initial function and people just add the displayed url as parameter
I think the most plausible way the display URL was changed in the Google results is via data injection. Basically, you would run the HTTP request through a proxy and modify the value for the display URL before passing it on to the Google servers. It would be in Google's best interest to ensure this value is not modified or accessible, though it is something that can be easily overlooked when they previosly restricted changing the display URL.
another average day of hearing about google's bad privacy practices
This isn't even a privacy issue, this is just straight up abusing their services.
This is why I'm so glad I never ever clicked on the ad version of sites to begin with. I never trusted them to begin with.
the irony of being served two ads, from companies offering to improve online ad presence, on this specific video.... it's just beautiful irony.
AI can inadvertently be giving us valuable hints right now for things that need to be looked further into.
This is why you never click on ads. Like why would Google the one making money off of these ads want to stop them?
@Universe_hacker007 I hate you. I will now raid you
I've seen multiple "featured results" recently that were direct download links to sketchy files. Like you click the link from the Google home page, and it started a download. One was due to a server configuration issue from a more or less reputable site, but the other was... less friendly seeming. I don't know why they let results show up that directly link to or auto-download files.
Combination of your browser settings and search engine optimization that "Google" has nothing to do with. google is not hacking anyone, their own ignorance is.
@@crisnmaryfam7344 if its in the ad section then google has everything to do with it. particularly if there using a link to file instead of a website.
Google ads has seriously gone too far, google doesnt even verify them!
All of this is linked to an education issue. People should be taught to ignore ads, phishing emails, etc..., we're in a world where people and corporations hate you, they will do everything they can to take your info and money.
Don't EVER click a sponsored link. It's clearly marked. If you can't see it, PAY ATTENTION!
Ah yes. Seytonic has met his quota. I was worked into a cold sweat for a moment, when I thought that you'd released a video without the word miscreant multiple times. Keep up the good work sir🧐
why is google so adamant about enforcing rules on youtube but not google ads? obviously monetary.
I’m making a video on something similar soon, the hacker that shut down google. Nice video seytonic ❤
Thanks, I've subbed! Looking forward to your video :)
@@Seytonic Woahh!! Glad you like my stuff 🙂
@@Seytonic What's the tool in 3:14?
lol I was just bored and felt like watching Seytonic so I just got finished watching a random video of yours from a year ago. Perfect timing for a new vid
Remember when google said their motto is "don't be evil".
I looked at wikipedia and it seems they haven't actually used that catchphrase in years. Makes sense.
Since 2015
I love watching your content at lunch, makes me enthusiastic going back to work.
A few months ago in school, we had to download a program to install an operating system in an usb (rufus) and the teacher and a lot of people downloaded it from an ad that was a clone of the official website. Apparently nothing happened but giving admin access to a random exe must have installed a backdoor. The only people who didn't install it are me (who had an adblocker) and some other people that noticed it
I remember when I started using Facebook around 2010-11, some family members taught me to never click on ad links
Wait! "Name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, account number" are "BASIC" customer info? Generally, phone number, name, and account number are sufficient to pass most T-mobile customer service reps to effect account takeover. And "widely available in marketing databases"? Personally identifiable information (PII) are the exact type of data that all kinds of privacy legislations specifically protect! Why are they widely available for money?
I use ad blockers to prevent these types of sites from showing up, or if I'm using a web browser that doesn't have one, I make sure to look for the word "Ad" before clicking on a link (and besides, they're the first ones to show up). I've been doing this for many years now as I don't want to accidentally click on an advertisement.
Have not used Google search for years. I flat out don't trust them.
Imagine clicking on working google ad service links. Pihole blocking goes brrrr
Facts! Not too many people know about Pi hole sadly.
As someone who uses adsense for websites and has to follow very strict rules, seeing they don't care about their ads makes me angry
@icespiritualhealer nobody asked you
I have been getting a lot of seemingly randomly generated trash sites these past 2 years. Mostly when I try to find older local news articles or some niche russian stalker mods related stuff.
One of the MANY reasons that I wil _NEVER_ click on an "ad" or "sponsored" link ANYWHERE!
Google is also completely freaking out currently over ChatGPT, and MS buying it for use in Bing. While they have their own AI tech, for some incredibly stupid reason - they haven't thought to adapt it to search queries. They literally had to call the original Google founders back in to ask for advice 🤦♂️
Yea chat gpt has solved problems or technical questions google couldnt provide the answer to. I hope microsoft doesnt fk this up with bing or however theyre going to use it. Google can suck it
not really stupid google is too big and got everything to lose while bing is 2% of market share and got everything to gain
manipulating results based on transforms model in the current state (what you see with ChatGPT) is to risky for their whole business model as marketing company
all what i can say for now as don't have time to go in-depth that things are:
- not as great as the hype makes them looks like
- it's way more complicated in case of google due to their size
Google's competence has been a joke for about a decade.
not just search security, but across majority of their long standing product lines.
About T-Mobile, how can a COMPANY as BIG as T-Mobile fuck up THAT bad? What is going on inside their head?
Also, the US government is currently taking Google to court for anti-trust issues with them prioritizing ads that were paid for directly to them. Doesn't make much sense to me..bc obviously they'd do that...but as I understand it, it's kinda similar to the old MS browser Explorer anti-trust case.
1:31 the reason that apple has an ad for their own brand is the same reason why this video exists: they protect themself and their brand against fakes and competitors in top-rankings. I dont really like apple but this is actually a "wise decision" to do so.
Damn that’s pretty messed up. Exploiting quite a lot, googles greed along with users nativity and favor of convenience
Hi! I would like to say that I personally experienced something like this before. It was for RUclips. The first link was an ad, and it had the exact same URL. Thankfully, the antivirus caught it, so I never got to see the website itself, but just so you know, they're not just advertising on downloadable programs search pages...
People actually click those ad links? My eyes just automatically gloss over those until I get to the actual search results.
A few years ago I would trick Riot Games into giving me already taken club tags by typing the name I wanted with a small typo and then contacting Riot Games Support to tell them I made a mistake and then tell them the name I actually wanted , they would give it to me. Later they added a system that would check if the name is already in use so you wouldn't trick riot employees that easily. So I would send them the name with invisible characters and if the employee copy pasted it I would get the name I wanted. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happened with gimp.
Isn’t it normal that web browser checks url first, than to show malicious url and provide you connection? 😂
I literally never click on the ad results in google because 99% of the time it's not there for what I want it for.
They are keeping the ad revenue for themselves. They are looking to catch out anyone. Pure greed
I never click on ads whenever I am on a machine without adblock. This is one of the reasons. The other reason is that if I like a site, I don't want them payung for my click, they are probably in the top 3 results anyway. There is no reason to click ever.
my friend accidentally typed “youtu” or something like that and the real domain for youtube came up but when she clicked on it, it would send her to a fake microsoft alert website
Best way to prevent this is to use brave and not google chrome
Hopefully some insider at Cellebrite will leak the full source code, or even just snippets.
I’m glad I started using computers at a young age, I can spot spoofed domains easily and those days without a adblocker faded out in the memory.
Why do you have that halo around all white surfaces. I don’t know how to explain it, but if you look on a white screen from this RUclips video. There’s this a little oval on the screen. Does anyone know why he does it?
Buying your own search term on adsense makes sure you actually list as the top search result / perceived first result. Also hinders bad actors from doing so etc.
t-mobile be like: yeah, all your data leaked, but no need to panic, since we've already been selling all this data to whoever wants it!
its only illegal if they cant tax it
Google really wants you to view ads but they do everything they can to make the alternative a better option every time.
This is why U-block origin.
Google should protect people not providing a robbery service for them
Maybe the fake site url is possible because the Google Ads API still allows display_url field? Check their api documentation.
Funny enough, I had ad-blocker enabled so Google never shows any ad results when searching. So I guess I'm safe.
You know what's funny, just before the T-Mobile section of the video I got an T-Mobile ad...
Even more reason for pi-hole blocking google ads.
Malvertisements have been a problem since the advent of online ad networks.
It could be possible that the google back end api for ads allows for that field to be changed, but the front end setup for it just doesn't allow that option, basically hiding that functionality from the end users, but forgot to actually remove it.
Google ads aren't a problem if 1) you don't use Google search and 2) you use an adblock and block google.
You can't figure out why google would demonetize you for petty stuff, but look the other way when advertisers do worse? I can explain it to you: financial motive. When they punish you, they get more money; if they punish them, they get less money. So they punish you to enrich themselves, and DON'T punish advertisers to (again) enrich themselves. As usual when trying to figure out motives, a good bet is to 'follow the money" (not always the motivation, but more often than not). If google lost money for allowing bad actors to advertise, they would stop allowing bad actors to advertise; however, they gain money by allowing bad actors, so why would they ever stop them? Only someone silly enough to think that corporations would ever do the right thing would be confused by this; if you are smart enough to realize corporations would do the worst, most heinous things for money, and hurt innocents for mere pennies, then this should all make sense. Corporations will do what makes them money; the only time they ever do the right things is when that happens to make them money; doing the right thing is NEVER their motivation (legally it cannot be), their motivation is ALWAYS money at all costs (as is legally required). So hopefully now, everyone understand why corporations like google pretend to do the right thing, but only ever do so when it benefits them, and they will gladly do the WRONG thing whenever that benefits them. If you want to understand the behavior of a corporation, study the behavior of a narcissistic psychopath, and you will be amazed at how similar they are, and how their it explains their past actions.
The way you pronounce Cellebrite...
"After Apple refused to unlock the phone, the FBI went to celebrate"
I can't recall clicking an ad on google ever..
Regarding Google Ad domain change: maybe the field is still changable, even though it isn't in the UI?
To make these Ads different from the rest of the search results, they should color them differently, put a green colored background around the Ad to show it's not a regular search item. Or how about making use of the empty whitespace to the right of the Search results, put all the ads they want there. It's completely unused area that could be filled with ads of some sort, instead of listing them right there with the rest of the search results. It really wouldn't be that hard to code that into the search page to display them all on the right hand side.
oh you mean how it was before? if i remember correctly, few years ago there was yellow color( either in name or in background i don't remember) for ads, but you won't misclick that if you saw it :p
I personally developed an immunity to advertisements and now ignore most of them. I assume most people are just like me. Key to keep people visiting those sites is to camouflage them as genuine search results.
that's defeat the whole purpose of a marketing company such as google
most probable change will be adding normal adds to that empty white bar
You mean, be open & transparent? Nope.
You know what, adblockers are now used for security. This is sad. Luckily I already use it everywhere I possibly can
7:45 Lmao, imagine if the NSA was publicly traded. Disgraceful.
Yea that first article has been a problem for quite a while. (Not the article but the Google search problem😂)
3:59 And that's where you were wrong.
When Google said protective they meant protective of their ad revenues.
Another way to look at it is they protect more the ad makers than you the consumer.
RUclips ads *ehem *ehem
I hope the FBI telling us to use AdBlock is actually foreshadowing for G
thats why having an add blocker is a must nowadays
The data actually look a lot like the 37 million rows that were posted for sale on breach forums
It's important to add celebrite is also used in US schools by staff there.
I have always had the rule to never click on the ad version of what I search. I skip the ads and look for the real site without the ad icon.
my wife nearly had her credit card info taken from a fake clothes shopping website. I only clocked it when i went to the legit website and didnt see any of the same "deals" which i then quickly stopped her entering her details! All because i have Ad Blocker on my Firefox i dont get the ads on my searches.
When it comes to the google search for gimp, i got a theory. The malicious actors just asked for a redirect. You can't do it on your own anymore but i don't think anything prevents you from asking a rep to allow the redirect. And what's stopping them from granting a redirect?
5:33 I was in one of their buildings once and saw an adapter thing or device that had like 15 cables hanging out of it (among them the old Apple connector, lightning, Mini USB, micro USB, USB-C, etc.)
Maybe the typo (last segment) was on purpose to make some customera think, this is a spam mail and not a breach enclosing.
This is why everyone should boycot google for a alternative
I literally found the afterburner phishing site good 3-4 months ago, sent a message towards msi about it, to try and make them aware of it and perhaps they could've changed the design of their download for afterburner but received no response
this is one of the reasons i switched to linux
you can download software with one command and do not have to go to shady websites and click one of the 100 download buttons
im glad microsoft is finally catching up with winget
the times i used it, it was very tedious though
Google sucks. How do I avoid this? Where can I seek out the conventional internet?
Just setup a pihole and you won't get any ads period. If you use ad block extensions, make sure you're not using chrome.
Google just fired 12'000 Employees, perhaps a salty fired employee from the Ad team or from their illegal Google-Facebook-Ad-Price-CircIe-Jerk Team made the GIMP ad
how can a company be breached 8 times in 5 years do they not have an it department nahh?
Also the colour of the hyperlinked text of an ad is purple while the colour of a normal link text that appears in the search results is blue
This is why I block ads.
funny this has been a problem for us OSRS players for years there was a fake runelite ad directing people to malware for a really long time and countless people fell for it
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