Scammers caught playing hidden video ads and draining smartphone batteries
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Anonymous, 23 Mar 2019is stay away from xiaomi, huawei will help?Nope
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is stay away from xiaomi, huawei will help?
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Oflife, 23 Mar 2019The UKs awful hypocritical ultra left wing (oh the irony) I... moreAre you talking about The Guardian or The Telegraph?
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The UKs awful hypocritical ultra left wing (oh the irony) Independent Newspaper has catastrophicaly designed web pages full of pop up auto playing sometimes hidden ads. Makes reading is impossible. Not that it's worth reading!
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What app tho? I got so many apps..
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Anonymous, 23 Mar 2019it aint even simple in reading everything you typedExactly. Just typed boat load of text and expect us to read it too.
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Anonymous, 23 Mar 2019You mean, to get rid of a pathetic app, one should get an e... moreiOS really isn't that bad at all. Has few very dumb things and also few very cool things. One of the best ones is that it "just works" and that it's not plagued by privacy ruining shit like pretty much every version of Android. Even if individual vendors don't preinstall garbage, it's Google stuff there which is bad enough by itself.
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Buy iphone , 23 Mar 2019Easy buy iphone problem solved, iphone has no such thingThat's like killing an ant with bomb.
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Wayne, 23 Mar 2019The solution is simple. Google make it so Android can only... moreAgreed!
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Baykko, 23 Mar 2019This is not a virus, the article says that some advertiseme... moreVirus = shady code
So basically THIS IS A VIRUS! But this came from Android.. I am not surprised. Nothing in this world is "free". They will get $$ out of you one way or the other.
I for one trust Apple only. At least they take money up front from you.. unlike Android and all its shady deals.
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- 23 Mar 2019
Step 1: install Blockada
Step 2: what ads?
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Wayne, 23 Mar 2019The solution is simple. Google make it so Android can only... moreSummary please?
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Buy iphone , 23 Mar 2019Easy buy iphone problem solved, iphone has no such thingYou mean, to get rid of a pathetic app, one should get an even more pathetic OS and live with it everyday?
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Buy iphone , 23 Mar 2019Easy buy iphone problem solved, iphone has no such thingYeah because iPhones drain more battery than any Android phone when playing ONLY ONE advertisement video clip :)))
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Anonymous, 23 Mar 2019it aint even simple in reading everything you typedI just skipped his post like how ads skip ads-controls.
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Easy buy iphone problem solved, iphone has no such thing
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Wayne, 23 Mar 2019The solution is simple. Google make it so Android can only... moreit aint even simple in reading everything you typed
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The solution is simple. Google make it so Android can only play one video at a time and only if it can be seen, any other video gets an upfront popup asking the user if they want to have another video, and the video app and source is logged in a user accessible file, so they can trace which app is doing it to where. Same with camera access, it's either confirmed by user through system or illegal, but logged as happened. A further step is for goggle servers to log that an non user event has happened (event time, app/process chain and IP destination, in case the phone is compromised to bypass the phone logging. They would also log attempts and alert the user to look to handle. Google advocate to authorities to prosecute and make new legislation cooperative across jurisdictional boundaries. Collapse the false ad market over night with similar laws for unassigned ads which are not registered officially in a space on a webpage by it's owner. All as criminal acts (frauds spying etc). Ban all floating ads over content, but not around a content window (meaning scrolling of content happens outside the add, so you don't get the bottom of a page stuck under an ad which can even hide next page links). Ban all ads over each other, and official ads and content, as fraud and theft of ad space. Ban all ads under official content and ad space, or otherwise invisible, as fraud. Bam unauthorised and invisible code (it comes in an ad, though it shouldn't, or with content within the browser page only), or is an official api standardised (no customs o'er page etc) framework. All RETROSPECTIVE legislation, as many of these things are normally crimes under existing legislation anyway (but maybe hard to enforce previously). All activities are logged for criminal and civil prosecution. These people destroy the ad experience and ad revenue. Less illegitimate, and ads in general, means more ad revenue and better user enjoyment.
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Bewildered , 23 Mar 2019This as I see it is not a user resolved issue but a serious... moreIt's not that only Google offers an advertising platform!