Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation

Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by autoexec on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#27813855)

I don't see anything about the overall design of the site that makes it look scammy. It looks pretty clean and even works well with JS disabled. If only every open source project had a site that nice!

One red flag I did notice was some awkward phrases/english.

"Phones support"

"This is why you need an open community that will point at your lies or convinces newcomers this app is safe."

"...if you’re not a new kid in the block"

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by jeroenhd on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:50PM (#27814261)

It could just be my phone, but the style choice and website design reminds me of a scrapbook. The fonts are all over the place, the colour blobs are distracting, there's a lot of focus on how the product is free to try out. The text boxes are wonky and overlapping each other and there are some lines of super small text on the bottom.

This could just be a mobile compatibility issue to be honest, but in my eyes this doesn't look like a website that I would trust with my financial information. Sure, they say all my info is encrypted, but so did Zoom at some point.

If I'm going to throw my financial data at something, I want its website to look professional. This website looks more... whimsical to me. That's a fine choice for a website advertising a text editor or social media client, but money is serious business. That first impression is extra important with such questionable ads and such a questionable domain name.

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by oehpr on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:28PM (#27814008)

autoexec was downvoted but looking at the site doesn't strike me as an obvious scam. https://safeapps.io/

Could someone please elaborate on the aspects you feel are deeply obvious to the point of not pointing them out? I seem to be missing them as well.

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by Bjartr on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:46PM (#27814226)

I think it's more how they aren't following the unwritten "corporate website" aesthetics playbook and looks way more artsy, even fly-by-night (I think that's largely up to the use of a monospace font). Which is technically fine. However if you're told someone you're about to be shown a money management site and show them this you'll get some raised eyebrows, similar to how if you told them they're about to see a bank teller and you showed them someone in a tie-dyed tshirt.

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by heavyset_go on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:37PM (#27814784)

There's no stock art from Humaaans and it doesn't look like a generic BigTechCorp website.

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by QuercusMax on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:46PM (#27814224)

The graphic design on the page is extremely amateurish. Rainbow borders, weird typeface choices, misaligned elements - somebody else said it looks like something from Geocities, and that's pretty accurate.

Compared to mint.com, which I guess it's competing with, it looks unprofessional and something I wouldn't want to trust my sensitive data with.

Just imagine if there were a new bank which was decorated like... a head shop, or strip club, or something like that. Would you want to bank there?

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Re:Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad mod... by wruza on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:59PM (#27815061)

Compared to mint.com

Which greets you with a “please close me” popdown, stutters because of a video, which plays below transparent text, jumps around at vertical scroll and couldn’t prevent it on horizontal carousels. That looks unprofessional.

Not to mention nauseous light-light-bleached green colorscheme. (I guess it ought to resemble mint)

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