By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026To make this even worse, Google's spent years making it more difficult to distinguish ads from "organic" search results, changing the font and size of the "ad" warning to make it harder to spot, and making the font and color of the ad itself closer to the color of the search results below it. 28/ 1596
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026This is a gift to fraudsters. I had my own run-in with it in 2023, when I was tricked by a Google ad into ordering dinner from my local Thai place using a scam site that had cloned the restaurant's menu. 29/ 2522
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026The scammers marked up the price by 15%, then passed the order on to the restaurant, pocketing the vig: pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/p... 30/pluralistic.netPluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1402
Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 05/08/2026poor Kiin ... we order from them all the time (always from their website) 011