• tio_bira@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In another news 90% of the world online scammers and hackers suddenly have gone…

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      90% of the world online scammers and hackers

      It’s crazy how these major tent poles of the modern internet - Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft - are all centered in the United States, but never bare any responsibility for the malicious traffic on their networks.

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        3 months ago

        The craziest part to me is that instead of dealing with bot traffic so they can tell advertisers actual people are seeing their ads, they’re just adding age verification.

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          Age verification that will, itself, be quickly subverted and spoofed. And which they won’t bother to manage internally, because that’s hard

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      You wouldn’t believe that this was one of the narratives for justifying the invasion to Ukraine in early 2022. Russian social media was full of narratives basically saying that Ukrainians are no longer able to scam common Russians, because the so-called “scam centers” were hit by missiles.

      It’s 2k26 and the same warmongering narrative is everywhere in the west social media. Y’all think you are invincible to propaganda, yet you’re falling to it in the same way.