Ackart

That’s a lot of fox

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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

browser developers should be tarred and feathered for allowing this shit to occur and doing nothing about it for however many years websites have been able to send notifications. look what you've done, you fucking assholes. you are responsible for one of the biggest avenues in existence for scamming and exploitation of the world's elderly and less-computer-literate people

at least half the malware service we handle at work is elderly people who received fake virus alerts full-screen on whatever browser and either need us to remove them or called the phone number, paid them $100, and need us to remove the remote control software they installed


Ackart
@Ackart

From day 0 I thought it was a stupid idea. Fake IT scam websites weren’t a new concept! Honestly I’m having an extremely hard time coming up with legitimate reasons a website should be allowed to send notifications!!

Of course, it was Google. So I’m dead certain the reason was “ads ☺️” and that’s it.

Many years later and it’s just this, over and over.


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