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
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.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The gimp hack was probably done by making a long ass strong or using a line break char to push up the original URL and the path is just a retyped real URL
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.
Surprised nobody’s said it yet! Display URL can be changed by the Search Ads 360 console. It’s for big spenders only but sometimes bad actors get an account through malware/SE.
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.
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🧐
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.
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
Hi! I would like to say that I personally experienced something like this before. It was for UA-cam. 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...
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 UA-cam video. There’s this a little oval on the screen. Does anyone know why he does it?
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
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.
I think the reason why Apple buys the top result is so that nobody else will do that. Fun trivia, a Swedish political party bought the top hit for one of their competitors a few years ago. Funny stuff!
The gimp url is most likely google. If it was possible to type your own domain in the past, chances are this is a legacy ad or and ad using this legacy feature. Similar to how I used t-mobiles deprecated internet system for unlimited wifi.
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.
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?
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.
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. UA-cam ads *ehem *ehem
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.
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.
Why would apple buy ads on the "apple" keyword? .... As you proceed to explain why apple should keep buying ads on the "apple" keyword. Almost as if this isn't a completely new issue.
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.
The ads on top haven't matched search queries for a long time. Yes yes yes, we can blame Google and the scammers but really people should finally learn that nothing on the Internet is save, secure, genuine, care-free... if they want that, they need to use a certified kids browser and search engine and even then, it's real humans who program these and might make a mistake that let's kids and tech-illiterates escape the cozy bubble into the real world...
Honestly the google ad problem is probably just through imputting the data through old API or just editing the submission that the google ad forms sends or etc-- its probably a basic ass attack that google didnt remove from their old infrastructure
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.
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
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.)
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.
isn't it just intercepting th postdata and sending the display url in a custom packet? Just cause the front end doesn't allow for modifying of display url, doesn't mean the back-end doesn't. It's likely that at some point the display url is just set to actual url.split('/')[2] + '/' +path1+'/'+path2 and then sent to the next stage in another packet, when you can just send yourown data to that next stage on yourown, no?
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
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
Hi, be careful out there. I have been almost fooled by fake GPU-Z download site. It looked like a real Tech Power Up site, but tried to download a crypto miner. Be careful!
For gimp i belive that someone left the old ui or api open and all u have to do is use it like normal through api calls, google usually keeps their old ui and api stored elsewhere
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...
@@contradictorycrow4327 because the alternatives also suck.
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.
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 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.
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 *
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
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 ?
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
I always bypass the Google ad links when using Google. good to see my distrust was completely justified.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Don't EVER click a sponsored link. It's clearly marked. If you can't see it, PAY ATTENTION!
A commonly used curse word: Insta-flagged. Malware ads: Passed
Hopefully some insider at Cellebrite will leak the full source code, or even just snippets.
The gimp hack was probably done by making a long ass strong or using a line break char to push up the original URL and the path is just a retyped real URL
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.
uBlock Origin.
All the more reason NOT to download any crap from ads link in Google!
Surprised nobody’s said it yet! Display URL can be changed by the Search Ads 360 console. It’s for big spenders only but sometimes bad actors get an account through malware/SE.
not sure you can type whatever URL you can edit stuff like subdomains shown and paths ..etc
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
Thinking back, it was 2013-14 that I first spotted poisoned Google ads. And here we still are...
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🧐
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.
Isn’t it normal that web browser checks url first, than to show malicious url and provide you connection? 😂
About T-Mobile, how can a COMPANY as BIG as T-Mobile fuck up THAT bad? What is going on inside their head?
Yea that first article has been a problem for quite a while. (Not the article but the Google search problem😂)
3:03 what site is that?? I wanna bypass bad word filters lmao
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
Hi! I would like to say that I personally experienced something like this before. It was for UA-cam. 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...
Funny enough, I had ad-blocker enabled so Google never shows any ad results when searching. So I guess I'm safe.
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 UA-cam video. There’s this a little oval on the screen. Does anyone know why he does it?
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
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.
Maybe the fake site url is possible because the Google Ads API still allows display_url field? Check their api documentation.
I think the reason why Apple buys the top result is so that nobody else will do that.
Fun trivia, a Swedish political party bought the top hit for one of their competitors a few years ago. Funny stuff!
I love watching your content at lunch, makes me enthusiastic going back to work.
The gimp url is most likely google. If it was possible to type your own domain in the past, chances are this is a legacy ad or and ad using this legacy feature. Similar to how I used t-mobiles deprecated internet system for unlimited wifi.
Nice clickbait. It's the ads, not Google Search, use an adblocker.
The ads that Google search returns?
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.
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?
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.
could you link the name of the tool at 3:11? I'd like to use it to get a cool looking username on vrchat
I was wondering that too
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.
UA-cam ads *ehem *ehem
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.
Best way to prevent this is to use brave and not google chrome
Regarding Google Ad domain change: maybe the field is still changable, even though it isn't in the UI?
Google ads has seriously gone too far, google doesnt even verify them!
why is google so adamant about enforcing rules on youtube but not google ads? obviously monetary.
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.
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.
Have not used Google search for years. I flat out don't trust them.
Why would apple buy ads on the "apple" keyword? .... As you proceed to explain why apple should keep buying ads on the "apple" keyword.
Almost as if this isn't a completely new issue.
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.
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
7:45 Lmao, imagine if the NSA was publicly traded. Disgraceful.
Even more reason for pi-hole blocking google ads.
Maybe the typo (last segment) was on purpose to make some customera think, this is a spam mail and not a breach enclosing.
Google should protect people not providing a robbery service for them
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.
It's important to add celebrite is also used in US schools by staff there.
The ads on top haven't matched search queries for a long time. Yes yes yes, we can blame Google and the scammers but really people should finally learn that nothing on the Internet is save, secure, genuine, care-free... if they want that, they need to use a certified kids browser and search engine and even then, it's real humans who program these and might make a mistake that let's kids and tech-illiterates escape the cozy bubble into the real world...
Honestly the google ad problem is probably just through imputting the data through old API or just editing the submission that the google ad forms sends or etc-- its probably a basic ass attack that google didnt remove from their old infrastructure
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.
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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
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
'Scapers Unite! ✊
for once in my life im glad i use bing
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.)
3:05 - Wow I didn't even know you could even do that, what's the tool being used? Can you do the same with usernames?
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.
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
isn't it just intercepting th postdata and sending the display url in a custom packet? Just cause the front end doesn't allow for modifying of display url, doesn't mean the back-end doesn't. It's likely that at some point the display url is just set to actual url.split('/')[2] + '/' +path1+'/'+path2 and then sent to the next stage in another packet, when you can just send yourown data to that next stage on yourown, no?
Can anyone please tell me the name off the tool at 3:01
I'm sure T-Mobile has the 8K Form saved as a Template by now. 😂
Imagine clicking on working google ad service links. Pihole blocking goes brrrr
Facts! Not too many people know about Pi hole sadly.
selling the trick on how to do it the ads thing
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
Maybe you can set custom domain by intercepting network request when submitting
I remember when I started using Facebook around 2010-11, some family members taught me to never click on ad links
The gimp campaign was probably being run years ago /before they changed requirements. The bad actor most likely just restarted an old ad.
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
What's the website at 3:05 where you can easily replace characters for lookalikes?
Hi, be careful out there. I have been almost fooled by fake GPU-Z download site. It looked like a real Tech Power Up site, but tried to download a crypto miner. Be careful!
This is why U-block origin.
You know what, adblockers are now used for security. This is sad. Luckily I already use it everywhere I possibly can
Apple pays for ads for their own terms FOR THIS VERY REASON. Because of impersonation.
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
bro, i downloaded gimp like 2 days ago.............NOOOOOOO
Did the GIMP virus get fixed before 2 days ago?
For gimp i belive that someone left the old ui or api open and all u have to do is use it like normal through api calls, google usually keeps their old ui and api stored elsewhere