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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 117 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Your browser is unsupported. Switch to Chrome to enjoy the full experience.

Download our app to get the full experience.

Please sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This help protect our community.

Turn off ad blockers to access our website and help fund our ~~data mining~~ blog.

Access the full article for only $100 a month!

"Something went wrong. Try again later" (turn off VPN)

Xitter doesn't support strict tracking protection in Firefox.

Create an account to do this thing you don't need an account for.

Also we have 3 captchas and 7 MFA steps you must complete. Please verify your birthday and social security number.

blank white page after sign in, with password manager pop-up attempting to save a passkey

"Upgrade" to Windows to use this website.

This content is 18+ only and requires an ID/face/genital scan.

"Ask me later"

No, no, and have I mentioned no. Furthermore, fuck you.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I had this shit the other day. Legit laughed out loud.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's because THEY FOUND MALWARE IN A RELEASE i saw a post about it yesterday. Think the devs have fixed it now but BEWARE if you had sensitive info on your device.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could be one of the fake ones. Need to get it from the drv's git, not the websites claiming to be him.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

SmartTube’s developer told me that the computer used to create the APKs for the project’s official GitHub page was compromised by malware. As a result, some official SmartTube releases were unintentionally released with malware.

The news post going around: https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it/

The new versions should be clean however:

Users who may have installed the malware-infected versions of the app are recommended to reset their devices and take additional steps to review their YouTube and Google account information. https://www.androidauthority.com/smarttube-malware-fix-3620773/

If you were logged into anything, probably best to change your password to be safe (and delete all sessions to unauth every device)!

Next time you see an alert like that, definitely research it before trying to work around it and install possibly infected software (i know there possibly wasn't any news when the alert went up, but i'd way a day then look it up again before continuing).

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, okay. Good to know. I dismissed the alert because it was after a recent update on the TV which also installed an Advertisement ID that allowed for AV ads on the home screen as soon as I turned it on. Definitely been in a "What bullshit is this now?" mode.

It's funny that the mindset has shifted to distrusting Google and Sony this much based on all the times they've tried to sneak things in or block the things that block them. Kind of like a persistent but low-level malware themselves, it's likely I'll dismiss/block their next attempt as I usually do. Having a warning from them is like listening to the boy that cried wolf, sort of.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Updated my shield and play protect disabled smartube, WTF. Fyi go to github and update smartube, because the original version signature was compromised and the developer has an alternate version.

[–] io@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days ago

after you did all that: great here is the recipe for banana bread

[–] Raffen@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Those newsletters you never signed up to, you click "unsubscribe", then the site you get directed to just happens to not function... block domain it is.

This app does not allow rooted device. Click here to see how to unroot.

Cookies: Click to accept all, or drop down where you painstakingly have to uncheck all bullets.

Every gadget needing internet access. Forced firmware updates.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

blank white page after sign in, with password manager pop-up attempting to save a passkey

Haven't seen this one, not surprised. Seems sketchy as fuck.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 127 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Or my ad blocker for that matter. Sorry TV Tropes, I’ll miss you.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I instantly back out then block that site from showing in my news feeds or whatever. I am absolutely done playing this game. America sucks so hard its vacuum has consumed every aspect of most people's digital life. Not just Americans either.

I used to do email marketing analytics for JP Morgan like 15 years ago and the amount of resources being thrown at gaining personal info then using that to trick people into clicking a fucking advertisement or affiliate link for fractions of a penny is disgusting. And they would have me use heat maps to see where people hover their mouse while reading their shitty newsletter so they could place a clickable link in that spot just so accidental click through numbers could be inflated. I even regularly changed the color of a banner or a text so slightly you couldn't perceive it because that particular shade of orange had more read time or clicks than the other with a subset of the targets.

I had massive spreadsheets with shit on people like food allergies, household populations, and how that related to clicks or opens and then target those people with a particular color or layout on the emails to increase the success of the campaign. All because they clicked "I agree".

Disgusting shit and that was 15 years ago. I didn't even live in the same country as the people I worked for and never once saw or talked to anyone I worked for. Good pay though.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is the most horrifyingly dystopian shit I’ve heard all year man. And it’s been a hard fucking year for that shit. I don’t fault you for taking the money but I absolutely loathe what you’ve helped create.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I was just labor. I didn't do more than extract the data, compile it, then wait for the email telling me what color hex to put where and which group identifier to send it to. I wasn't as much of a thinker back then and one day I was looking at the data as I organized it and was wondering why the hell do they know John Doe has 3 kids, rents, and had a shellfish allergy?

Then I realized pretty quickly what my job really was. The real terrifying part was those spreadsheets just lived on my laptop. Not password protected or any proprietary software. Just Excel and gmail to send them to whoever I worked for so they could send me the next week's campaign layout. Then I built the emails, added the links, sent them off to thousands and thousands of people grouped by whatever standards had been set that week. More than that, I obviously used a software for mass emailing, but my list of recipients was just another spreadsheet with countless people's email, names, and phone numbers.

I now realize why these huge data beaches occur everywhere from these giant corporations. You think they've got "security" or whatever and they protect your info. In reality a 26 year old stoner with a MacBook used for watching porn and pirating movies and games using whatever basic ass free antivirus software has all of it in a folder, labeled email list, literally on his desktop with an unbreakable pin of 1234, being employed by people who have never seen, heard, or talked to.

And he doesn't even realize the implications of having this at all. I'd like to think things have gotten more strict with security and whatnot, but if that was true it wouldn't happen so often.

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I am screenshotting and bookmarking this for next time someone ribs me for how mad i get over the incessant advertizing or the data harvesting. It is exhausting to be made felt like I'm overreacting when it should be the normal response for your own home and devices to be constantly raped by ad-gorithms. FUCK MARKETING.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"That thing you use for security? Disable it before you come in. Come on, live a little, huh? 😏 Nothing bad's gonna happen. Pinky swear."

[–] spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

"Security"

[–] pulsey@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

I am clean, I swear.

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 19 points 3 days ago

I have the same policy with sites that demand I turn off my adblocker

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. Never you mind where the fuck I'm actually from. You don't need to know. It's funny how badly you want to know though.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Well, some companies are now using location data to jack up prices

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Might as well require a log-in with a free* account (No monetary payment required, please don't read the part about data sharing in the TOS).

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And then there's the mysteries like OneDrive, where I cannot upload without VPN. Either it keeps failing or it's slow.

With a graph, here's what it does without and with VPN, and eventually fails without one:
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[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

ISP problem. It means they are blocking stuff.

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[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Amusingly I had to disable my vpn to post this

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How odd. I have never heard of .world filtering based on VPN usage, although it's been some time since I used that instance regularly.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I can read without issue but more often than not posting comments or indeed posts fails unless I pause for 5 mins.

E. This went through without disconnecting as an example. Can't figure out if threshold a pattern

[–] io@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

maybe the particular server of the vpn haz problems? have your tried switching that around?

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So, the problem with VPNs is that the cheap ones / resellers have known IPs.

So if you use them you get lumped in with all the people using them maliciously.

If you run a site with any kind of desirable the content the crawlers and scripters hound you endlessly and eventually if you don't want it to be your full time job you just end up banning the entire IP/ ASN that the malicious traffic is coming from.

It sucks and if anyone has any solutions I'm all ears.

[–] io@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

first, the ips of all vpn providers are known, the problem with the cheap/free ones is that they spy on you.

instead of blocking ips use proof of work for those sus ips https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

(it's the anime girl that checks if you are a bot. :3)

it drives the cost of crawling at scale high up while being minor for individual, "legit" requests

all the cool kids are using it

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Governments could actually shut down the scammers. They know who and where but they don't act.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Joke's on you when their website is wrapped in an app that you have to use.

Happened to me recently with the app I use to buy train tickets.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On iOS I go into App Privacy Report and grab all those domains and put them into Tailscale to route through the correct exit nodes.

Usually it’s just one or two domains like api.example.com, CDNs typically don’t care and I block the other third-party shit via DNS (Blocky).

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah there's always a workaround. It's just annoying.

[–] rook@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

Stuff like this shows you who is just there to sell your data, and not sell you an experience.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From visiting Core77 and being active in the forums every day to haven't gone on once overnight

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have them in RSS and have no problem opening their links over Mullvad

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Might be my browser. Do you access them off Firefox? Site crashes on me every time since they must've updated something over the summer

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

This is sort of amusing because you need to disable your VPN to make an account on WAFRN last I checked.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

But then how will you apply for a passport to emigrate* when they start making applications online only and probably require facial scans using your phone?

(*I'm assuming you're like already inside those countries that made such laws)

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