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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by tunap on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:47PM (#17892681)
Even with an adblocker, you can still see Goog's ad results in search. Amidst the ubiquitous Amazon & Ebay results, or in lieu of, many results are scammers... who pay for top results in other ways(SEO).Ever search for Windows Licenses pre-10? If I didn't know better I would think $25 was the normal price for genuine COAs.

I wonder if Dregslist will ever have a similar 'drain the swamp' moment w/ their scammers...

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday September 01, 2018 @03:21PM (#17893491)
No idea which ad blocker you tried, but uBlock Origin will happily take care of those ads.
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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by tunap on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:36PM (#17897540)
Heh, my not-so-obvious implication was search results are in essence ads themselves. I use NS & uBO, I wouldn't use the web w/o them.
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