Absaroka

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I enjoy that they're focusing on 'promoting pirated software and game cheats' before talking about malware first.

Cybersecurity ethusiast Karol Paciorek who spotted the playlist said, "cybercriminals exploit Spotify for malware distribution. Why? Spotify has a strong reputation and its pages are easily indexed by search engines, making it an effective platform to promote malicious links."

That's a very different, more helpful story. "Watch out, Spotify links are being used to distribute malware to your computer."

When abusing platforms, spammers and scammers leave no stone unturned to promote their agenda.

Money. They aren't doing this as part of a 'peons of the world unite to steal software' scheme. They're doing it to generate traffic so they make more ad revenue.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As somebody who tends to be a 'glass half full' kind of guy, I really do hope that Trump goes too far and does something like the above causing people to snap out of whatever trance led them to follow him in the first place.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Aside from democracy and society as a whole, the biggest loser in this last campaign was traditional media. I don't think any outlets came out ahead and confidence for many in publications like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, MSNBC, and others is at rock bottom.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They're just also just borderline disgusting now. All of the ones around me have the same shitty old grey carpet. They aren't clean. Most of the aisles look like warzones. What little staff is there have that 'please help me' deer in the headlights look.

And don't get me started on having to wait an extra 5 minutes to leave because the 75-year-old grandma has absolutely no idea how to use the self checkout.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great video by the More Perfect Union folks about how CVS is cutting corners and putting customers at risk, all in the name of the almighty buck.

They also did a video a few weeks back about CVS employees needing to strike to get health insurance ... despite the company owning Aetna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2bVQp3-DdM

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

If we can get all of the sports reporters to head over, that might be the final death blow to Twitter.