Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

[mikemcquaid@mastodon.social]

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.

Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.

Google keyword `brew` points to a malicious site with false Homebrew install instructions · Issue #1074 · Homebrew/install

your problem was from running the official install or uninstall script? you carefully read the output and it was not a git fetch or other connection issue to GitHub (that Homebrew has no control over)? after installation: ran brew config...

GitHub (github.com)

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@mikemcquaid
Is an ad, right?

[troed@swecyb.com]

@mikemcquaid I truly doubt this is something Google wants to fix. I _just_ managed to stop my mother from subscribing to a fraud service the other week when searching Google Play store for the networked camera she had just bought turned up a paid for app placement above the manufacturer's own app.

Like Facebook and the celebrity scam ads they're making money from it. No problem detected.

[partizan@twiukraine.com]

@EndlessMason @mikemcquaid It is always an ad!

Would be nice to take them to court for this shit.

[minkiu@mastodon.social]

@mikemcquaid the solution is simple, just pay more for the ad/promote slot. /s

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@partizan @mikemcquaid
Sometimes it's just a slop article that does really well at SEO

[avadoll11@mastodon.social]

@mikemcquaid Brew? Like coffee? But it’s a bad site? I’d stick to real coffee then. Tech stuff is tricky and scary sometimes!

[minimac@mastodon.world]

@mikemcquaid @bagder Advertising is how Google makes its billions—to hell with them.

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@mikemcquaid This is the same Google which is so uncapable of handling SPAM that they ended their USENET peering instead of curbing abuse of Google Groups for advertising.