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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data (www.nextpit.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] shalafi 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ex wife: Turn off the blueberry pie or whatever! [She really said that.] It's blocking my clicks!

OK.

"Why is my internet so slow?!"

Dunno, let me see your phone.

Points finger: Ad, ad, ad downloading, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad...

"Fine. Turn it back on."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I had that too, my Mother was wondering why the first two Google results weren't working. Because they were the ads, and the Pihole refused to resolve the domains. She didn't even realize she fell for the Google Ads injected as pseudo results. (It's been a while I don't know if they are still around)

Even worse my ex almost payed for Firefox, because she fell for the ad links above the real Mozilla link below, when she was looking for the Installer.