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Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." (arstechnica.com)

Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....

TrickDacy ,

They don't work? How naive.

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The person you're explaining websites to is a web developer and they are correct. There being a ton of websites needlessly dependent on JavaScript is well known and long lived.

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The data is very clear... Ads work. They absolutely shouldn't almost ever, but they do. With the cornucopia of analytics available, companies have long been able to see if their ads work, and if they didn't, they would've stopped long ago. Hell even before the Internet they had ways to prove ads work.

edit: gotta say it's pretty sad that so many simpletons downvoted this. Ya know, ads working is something that I hate. I hate ads. I want them all to go away. I'm simply stating a well known fact: they absolutely work, even on people like you and I who do our best to block and ignore them.

You're pretty fragile if that fact upsets you enough to shoot the messenger.

TrickDacy ,

Uh I didn't...

Ads work. It's a fact. Just because it's a sad fact doesn't mean I want you to be sad.

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The question was why bother

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A very uninformed take

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Other people have already corrected your misinformation

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Probably most desktop Linux users? ...

I love gnome. People love KDE but I think it's not very good.

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I think it's more peak moron. Morons everywhere.

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it's based on memes

So you're basing an opinion on the world's dumbest, least accurate form of communication

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Wrong. If an extension for your need isn't enough, you can very simply just use another DE. No one is entitled to random free custom development work

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I can't think of a single thing about gnome that remotely resembles apple, outside of some UI patterns...

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This comment implies that Microsoft design choices are better which is hilarious

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Apple is garbage but they have made some good design decisions. Microsoft rarely has. And no it's not "on me". Anyone using Mac windows and Linux over the years would see that most Linux DEs copy a lot from either MS or Apple, most outside of gnome primary mimicking windows.

TrickDacy ,

He did not get anything spot on

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And yet KDE is still jankier.

People always talk about extensions breaking.. I've probably used 5-10 extensions and only one of them broke, and I don't even remember what it was.

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Yeah. It's mainly based on the fact that Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros are wildly popular

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So you like windows style UI. Great, good for you.

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Not true but weird flex "pfft this guy only knows two desktop environments!"

Seems like you're not very familiar with the history of computer interfaces if you can write what you just did

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Everything out there is heavily influenced by MS and/or apple, the majority of influence coming from MS. Feels pretty apparent in my experience that if you're shitting all over apple uis then you prefer the alternative. Apple's so easily criticized but like 90% of their design choices I think fall outside that and are vastly more intuitive than MS shit.

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Yep. It's amazing how Microsoft fanboys come into the Linux communities spreading their weird biased takes

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I just said not everything is apple and MS

But it kind of is though to a very large degree. So much so it's like a fish being in water but thinking wetness isn't a factor in any circumstance

Just keep whining about how superior you think you are like an average apple fanboy

Uh ok yeah thanks for the very relevant advice /s

TrickDacy ,

We already know the answer, hence my comment. We heard from you that windows is better and Mac os is trash. What else do we need?

It is absolutely bizarre to me that (a few, vast minority) people hate gnome so much. It feels smooth, modern, and stable while the others I've used feel mostly like an amateurish glitchy version of windows.

You could always just not use gnome and let others use it. I think KDE is janky but I don't really say that until people jump on the gnome hate bandwagon

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A lot of people took this at face value. Even myself at times.

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Just goes to show if you're an actual good guy, you get the shaft (Snowden), but if you're a rapist who repeatedly helps fascists, you have hope.

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Only took them 17 years.

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Seriously though -- how the fuck did Apple get away with trying to be a monopoly 24/7 for 17 years? The iPhone launch and everything since could not have been clearer.

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This is fucking gold

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..?

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Ah, I don't usually think of trash bins by that term

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I have one of those Google streaming devices but I hate giving up my privacy. Also, I saw fast food ads on the device's home screen one day and I couldn't disable those. That was the last straw.

So now I use a raspberry pi 5 running arch with Firefox to stream everything to my TV. I even got a remote working with it that works fairly well, moves the mouse and everything. It was a lot of work but now I own my experience and don't have to give Google my data in that particular way anymore.

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Does Twitter not already use captcha? Captcha is easily beaten by sophisticated bots from what I've read

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Yep that's exactly why they had started the 2 then changed their mind lol. Alllll part of the plan

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Yeah I guess you're right. Amazon really should allow counterfeit goods because in all cases you are an idiot and it's your fault if you buy them /s

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Other people spending money on shoes is not your business. If you want to be in favor of a scammer, that's on you. It's pretty shitty regardless.

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Yeah isn't it weird how somehow the "landscape" they're so worried about messing up with wind turbines or solar panels... Is never impacted by things like this?

Literally have never heard a conservative complain about strip mining even though it's insanely ugly and the closest we can come to actually raping the planet.

TrickDacy ,

There’s plenty of hypocracy, no need to exaggerate

Okay, I wasn't exaggerating. The existence of one counter example doesn't mean I was. For examples about what I mean: see almost every coal mining town ever. It's like a cult. The conservatives almost unanimously are in favor of coal no matter what it does to their environment or how badly the mining companies disregard safety and basic human dignity. I have never heard a conservative oppose or complain about strip mining, literally never. But if alternative energy ever comes up, they're all suddenly very concerned with natural beauty. This doesn't mean conservatives never once had an issue with strip mining, it just means that it's extremely rare in comparison to their comments like this: "omg wind turbines are UGLY and kill ALL the BIRDS"

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Sooo... strip mining is better because it's less visible (it's actually not. source: have driven around the US)?

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Yeah good question. I don't get why it's reposted, basically ever

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Fuck 4chan

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Not in a good way

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Fuck 4chan

TrickDacy ,

Couldn't understand you with the MS shaft in your gullet

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I trust my data with my ISP farrrrrr more than I do meta, and also I'm very unconvinced my ISP has access to anything at all here.

TrickDacy ,

Either that or condescending

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Yup okay. I'm sure I'm just making up the simpery because no one just loves apple and defends them endlessly, they're all stating neutral facts

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the things these people say are not comprehensive enough

Ftfy

TrickDacy ,

Aw poor wittle apple twied to make a text standawd but big bad google refused! uWu!

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