People on Android are probably at least 3x as likely to change their default search engine.
Doesn’t Google get 100 of the android revenue since it owns Android?
I expected better from Ars Technica than to resort to malvertising:
An ad on the page redirected me there before I could even touch the screen to start scrolling. The ad banner loaded and immediately redirected me there. Hitting back and clicking the link again on Lemmy a few times and I was able to access the site normally.
I’m pretty sure that shady shit is on you. Also, why aren’t you running an ad blocker?
I doubt it, my phone runs LineageOS and strongly avoid closed source apps, browser is plain ol’ default Chrome, computers are Linux, router is OpenWRT, IoT is on its own VLAN. I guess my ISP, CenturyLink could be doing some shady things. But otherwise, I doubt it. My server would be a much more interesting target, and is public facing obviously since I’m posting through it.
As for why no ad blocker, I use AdAway but it breaks some apps. I don’t use any apps that have ads so it’s limited to Chrome, which mostly gets used when opening links from Lemmy or IRC.
@Max_P @FurtiveFugitive you know, Chrome itself is closed source.
That’s how they pay for Android. Just because you don’t pay a royalty doesn’t mean the software is free. (Even if it is libre)