Post B1qtqXyP2czFsjayae by deFractal@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #B1qpvqisMIu1fDbbqC by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-01T19:51:11Z
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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone
(DIR) Post #B1qq7sui2Td1vwsarA by zak@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T19:53:23Z
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@aral Ah, I've seen this one. It's a bit extreme, but sometimes you can get around this by disabling scripts on the given site. It'll remove some functionality, but if you're just looking to read something, it still works!
(DIR) Post #B1qqPRYiTw6KJ5xuGe by rooneymcnibnug@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T19:56:32Z
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@aral can you give me the full URL of one of these (minus any params) please? I want to test a few things.
(DIR) Post #B1qqx0PRvgBLwydOEq by sortius@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:02:44Z
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@aral they'll find that all this will do is drop readership. It's what's been happening forever with the adblock blockers, yet they still don't get why
(DIR) Post #B1qr9nemeedQAAuKjg by nemo@mas.to
2026-01-01T20:05:02Z
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@aral Yeah, please disable your ad blockers. We need you to be prone to malwaretisement (malware advertisements).Don't you folks know that our friends who created the Predator or Intellexa malware can't install it unless you folks allow ads... so selfish of y'all? /s off #ffs 😮💨 So uncool on so many layers.https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/eu_spyware_funding/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/predator-spyware-firm-intellexa-resurgent-after-u-s-sanctions/https://www.amnesty.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Executive-Summary_Predator-Files_English-1.pdfhttps://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.predator
(DIR) Post #B1qsUFqDfvF9JzZeHg by MostlyTato@mstdn.social
2026-01-01T20:19:55Z
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@aral Bastards. Nice of them to recommend ad blockers to use though 😉
(DIR) Post #B1qsrH6t7jTVuvLbsm by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:24:00Z
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@aral Huh. I can't replicate that. Seems by adblocker is blocking it.
(DIR) Post #B1qtqXyP2czFsjayae by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:35:08Z
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@aral You must be using only network-based ad blocking (not browser-based ad blocking), or using an inadequate blocker or a browser which doesn't support full-featured blockers. The malicious script causing the redirect is already blocked by this built-in #uBlockOrigin filters. It looks like you're using Safari. Try Firefox or one of its AI-free derivatives instead, and install uBlock Origin. https://ublockorigin.com
(DIR) Post #B1quCcyP8FQLlB7o9o by Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:39:11Z
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@aral I don't see it?Does it affect uBlock Origin
(DIR) Post #B1quyP22GkIUQBbX2u by cxj@phpc.social
2026-01-01T20:47:49Z
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@aral Amen. Fuck those assholes.
(DIR) Post #B1rCdzXt7CDUlCv6Bc by VonStargrove@infosec.exchange
2026-01-02T00:05:51Z
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@aral Thanks for raising this. It is such a dick move by those developers 😞
(DIR) Post #B1rD4uwkK2n8JcO19E by bananamangodog@aus.social
2026-01-02T00:10:43Z
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@aral Every single time I run into something like this that whole site gets added to my "only access via internet archive" list and the site blocked to remind me.
(DIR) Post #B1rUPSonnO40Nb3ODY by bhaugland@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T03:24:54Z
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@aral sites that do that are not worth visiting. I just move on.
(DIR) Post #B1rVYv8Tyu2ClUKevo by GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T03:37:44Z
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@aral hang on the channel.io people named their ai agent *ALF?* like the fucking alien that eats cats from that one sitcom?
(DIR) Post #B1rYXZcmm2TXccYVXs by ketmorco@fosstodon.org
2026-01-02T04:11:08Z
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@aral what I say to these sites 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕get. Rekt.
(DIR) Post #B1raluo11GlHHCm5Kq by StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-02T04:36:15Z
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@aral I just close any site that pulls that shit. They don't deserve my eyeballs.
(DIR) Post #B1s5XRRCVdh4iagJqi by holdenweb@freeradical.zone
2026-01-02T10:21:01Z
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@aral They are. Wimps with no conscience or imagination. In short: dicks.
(DIR) Post #B1s5vwpVRihP1qjg7k by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-02T10:25:22Z
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@qgustavor Indeed, this is malware.
(DIR) Post #B5722G0WufDX1q95YO by PRSXFENG@mas.to
2026-04-09T08:58:44Z
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@aral Hi there! the folks behind this is called Ad-Shieldhttps://www.ad-shield.io/They intentionally distance themselves by not having their name shown on the block page.They are the most brutal anti-adblock I've ever seen.The gist of how it works is that it attempts to "recover" ads by loading them in via the html-load.com domain.But if it cant, the user shall be punished into submission by throwing up fake errors blaming your ad blocker for breaking the site.
(DIR) Post #B582a2FclBpvMqGx1M by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-09T20:38:45Z
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@PRSXFENG Fuckers. I believe that’s the technical term.
(DIR) Post #B586rPXDqOzwJw2pCS by nil@mastodon.sg
2026-04-09T21:27:09Z
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@aral @PRSXFENG uMatrix is still one of the best tools I've come across for dealing with this kind of shenanigans.Chrome v3 manifest is another good case of the term "those fuckers" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
(DIR) Post #B5ggiHaWDvnYnAAdkG by PRSXFENG@mas.to
2026-04-26T13:49:03Z
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@aral Hi there, quick updateI bring bad newsTHEY'RE COMING FOR MOBILE APPS THEIR MALWARE LIKE ANTI AD BLOCK is coming to mobile appshttps://www.ad-shield.io/blog/ad-shield-now-recovers-ads-inside-mobile-apps
(DIR) Post #B5gi6f8MQriSiqBmSG by benjaoming@social.data.coop
2026-04-26T14:00:04Z
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@PRSXFENG @aral wow my brain simply doesn't compute this newspeak craze»This is a type of adblocking traffic known as dark traffic, because it flies under the radar unmonetized, immune to conventional adblock recovery solutions.«