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  • Actually it seems you may have made some mistakes in researching causes of viruses. Viruses have infected Windows machines more in the past as it is a larger target, there are far far more Windows users than Apple and Linux users by a large large margin which means you have a higher target for your attack. MacOS makes up about 7% of the operating system market at its peak and Linux hovers are 2-3% so planning a virus to affect one is not a great idea unless.... Microsoft's security started to become so strong that malware developers now have to seek the open vulnerabilities (see op). Since that's not understood we can move on

    As far as the article indicates the ad itself was not actually a Google fault whatsoever, it actually appears as a Google ad though. The malware itself is installed by other means entirely but the user themselves, the relation to Google here is that the malware already installed on the machine disguises itself as a Google ad. Really, honestly, read the article next time. This is 100% standard malware attack on an unprotected system.

  • No this was all merged into YouTube many years ago after it was announced long before that they were ending it. This is Lemmy so everyone is just gonna pretend Google just announced this and make a big deal out of it because "Google bad"

  • Hard to hold down a job to pay for rent/mortgage, car payments, food, utilities, etc. While battling cancer. Your medical expenses may be covered to a small extent but you don't live for free when you are sick.

  • In reality they should have just said nothing, by recalling it and notifying the general public far more people are going to be aware of this. Had they just said nothing it probably would have flown way under the radar

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  • The way I see it, things have been filtered down to a design concept of "simplify until a toddler can figure it out" and that's been followed by so many designs that everyone has overlooked all the drawbacks of designing in that fashion. People have become wildly content with simple apps that lack personal configuration or extended functionality because users now lack so much basic knowledge or expect crazy things to the point that if they come across any small issue they will call technical support, leave a crazed email, or complain loudly on social media long before they every actually considered solving the issue themselves or even checking online to see how others arrived at the issue. I kinda feel like I'm just rambling right now but for a long time society, at least here in the US, normalized and and removed negative connotations from the term "computer illiterate" to the point that it's become not only the norm but the design goal.