take_five_seconds [he/him, any] to [email protected]English • 9 months agoGoogle pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive adswww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1165cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareRyanGosling [none/use name]linkfedilinkEnglish14•9 months agoI once stood behind someone and watched them click on a banner ad that says “DOWNLOAD NOW!” while trying to download Notepad++ They didn’t see it on the list of apps, so they refreshed the page and clicked on a different download banner ad and installed a second malware lol
minus-squareTabitha ☢️[she/her]linkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoalmost all of those general websites for winblows executables seem to have ads pretending to be download buttons, like 100% of the time, it seems like natural fauna of the windows ecosystem at this point.
I once stood behind someone and watched them click on a banner ad that says “DOWNLOAD NOW!” while trying to download Notepad++
They didn’t see it on the list of apps, so they refreshed the page and clicked on a different download banner ad and installed a second malware lol
almost all of those general websites for winblows executables seem to have ads pretending to be download buttons, like 100% of the time, it seems like natural fauna of the windows ecosystem at this point.