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lua đź’«
@lua.pet

i was served a fake system notification ad by Google that said "your PDF reader is out of date. click here to update. if you don't update you will lose your files" and so of course i report it, like all the others and of course, i get the usual expected result:

lua đź’«
@lua.pet

does anything matter anymore? is technology just doomed? why is Google serving straight up malware via AdSense, YouTube, and the Play Store ??? just on my own i've personally seen so many egregious examples of this. Google should be sued for trying to scam my grandma @developers.google.com

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Pocket Ferret
@pocketferret.neocities.org

My grandfather who ofc is not the most tech literate fell for this exact thing. It was relatively easy to undo when I looked at it. But ya, google os constantly failing its users in failing to stop literal malware on the playstore