viking

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago

Escalate it to their support team.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 14 hours ago

Do it on the desktop website, their mobile stuff is broken beyond repair.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.

Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 14 hours ago

No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.

Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 21 points 15 hours ago

They changed the phrasing, since in some jurisdictions "sharing anonymized data with partners" can apparently be interpreted as a sale of data, if they get something in return, even if it's not a fiscal payment.

But after the outrage that sparked, they've rephrased the policy again and wrote a lengthy article detailing the reasoning, which is at the very least plausible.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Reddit became a clownshow 2 years ago, how are people even still enjoying the place?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Yep, I've removed both of those the second they showed up on my phone uninvited. Even as a non-US citizen, with the current state of their government, I definitely don't want any corporate collecting data on myself.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh right, maybe I noticed because of Storage Isolation, that's an app which allows you to restrict folder access of other apps, and it prompts me to select actions for every newly installed app. So it casually prompts me whenever google pushes a new, hidden installation.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Play Store, it doesn't show in local search results, but they list it as installed.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 4 weeks ago

Cesspool for sale? Nice.

 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14206569

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen

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Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

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There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!