• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    90% of the world online scammers and hackers

    It’s crazy how these major tent poles of the modern internet - Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft - are all centered in the United States, but never bare any responsibility for the malicious traffic on their networks.

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      The craziest part to me is that instead of dealing with bot traffic so they can tell advertisers actual people are seeing their ads, they’re just adding age verification.

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        Age verification that will, itself, be quickly subverted and spoofed. And which they won’t bother to manage internally, because that’s hard