Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results using a domain that is similar to an actual business or service. When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result. These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business’s official webpage.
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Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.
Content highways are a concept that I have been thinking about for years. Basically extensions that cut all the crap and give you the web experience you want. Sponsorblock already goes into that direction but I do wonder if it can finance itself or will sell put it‘s users eventually. I hope that concept could be expanded upon to block/warn users about certain triggers for example or dark patterns where the „remove ads!“ button on Twitch.tv gets flagged for being a paid subscription button etc.
Im confused, would anyone think the “remove ads” button is anything other than a paid subscription? Am I misunderstanding?
We are conditioned to know that “remove ads” doesn’t actually remove ads, but directs to a page to sell subscriptions (that also, when bought, removes ads).
That’s what he means
Ah, fair. Not trying to be a dick or controntational with what im about to say, but thats kinda just how capitalism works. Imo its so much worse that we have been conditioned to think 40 hour work weeks are normal and that you have to work to survive. Ugh I want capitalism to collapse so bad :(
Isn’t that kind of already in existence? I am predominantly thinking of RSS readers, but also read-mode or read-it-later apps extracting only article bodies and bookmarking apps used for curating and saving your own interesting content, or FOSS frontends such as invidious/piped, twire and tubular.
None of these are extensions or specific to recognising dark patterns, but by their nature of content extraction and delivery they (almost by definition) circumvent most of the existing dark patterns trying to gate or steer access to said content.