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JoeyRox writes: Thousands of mobile applications are downloading ads that are never presented to users but which collect an estimated $850 million in fraudulent revenue from advertisers per year. The downloading of these invisible ads can slow down users' phones and consume up to 2GB of bandwidth per day. Forensiq, an online technology firm fighting fraud for advertisers, found over 5,000 apps displayed unseen ads on both Apple and Android devices. "The sheer amount of activity generated by apps with fake ads was what initially exposed the scam. Forensiq noticed that some apps were calling up ads at such a high frequency that the intended audience couldn’t possibly be actual humans".
Been using it for years and have never received spam. You can add individual addresses or entire domains and all your contacts are automatically included as well.
Machines kill people all the time yet this story is getting a lot of traction because it plays into the 'evil robot' narrative. I've seen some pretty evil automobiles, chainsaws, and escalators.
Right, because in the absence of government intervention no private company would ever fill the void by coming up with businesses that allow people to review products so that others can avoid corporations taking shortcuts with their products. I didn't realize Consumer Reports, IIHS, and Yelp were government-run enterprises.
The difference is immaterial wrt to my argument because the result is the same - the government doesn't get its tax revenue, and both come about from ill-conceived tax policies.
France doesn't have that problem? Tell that to all the wealthy ex-pats who left the country after France was proposing a 75% income tax. And you think corruption is unique to Greece?
Btw, "There, fixed that for you" went out with Barney 5 years ago. He was the purple dinosaur btw.
To see what their future holds. Over-regulation, anti-competitive policies, protected public worker class, and oppressive taxes. A perfect recipe for insolvency and economic depression.
