Here's a useful one for ya', how to spot shady crap when it comes to DIgital Technology. It's an artform, and can turn into a lifestyle if you're someone like me looking for the best "deal" on everything (ie. I don't have to pay much, if anything, and your software doesn't wreck my machine).
CreepingNet's Theories of Shady Shit
- If it sounds too good to be true, then it
probably MOST LIKELY is - This is true in all ages of life, but the internet and internet-downloaded software ESPECIALLY. I'm suspicious of any "free" application that claims to do all of the work for you, or example. Because chances are, those "extended features" are going to be some kind of"pay wall" or some kind of weirdo "ransom" situation where your WORK is held hostage (not your job, whatever file you're working on). Generally, this is a huge problem with Commercial operating system based things, such as Windows and MacOS, less of a problem with Linux since most LInux stuff is OpenSource and donationware anyway. This goes the same for anything else, e-mails, social media, news, especially now that Trump basically has given the tech industry free reign to just ignore internet bad-actors. So back to 1990's rules in my book, POLICE YOURSELF. That's the least you can do.
- If it's surrounded by a lot of Advertising that sounds like a early morning 1990's infomercial, then it's probably malicious (or incredibly crappy) - Basically put, you go to a website for a piece of software, and you start seeing the numbers go up on your pop-up blocker, and you see them advertising weiner pills and shake weight clones from some kind of Temu clone site....it's probably time to click the back-button. Bill Hicks was right about Advertsing, they are Satan's Little Helpers, but they can be your little helper by letting them guide you AWAY from garbage.
- If it has ANYTHING remotely SEXUAL around it, advertising, or something else, time to "nope" out of there - Remember, boner pills, shake weights, "this little 15 second trick will blah blah blah", that kind of stuff, if you see any of that, you're probably sixteen inches away from the type of site that would get this one put on the "naughty list" for even mentioning it. Let's just say, act like your own mother is looking over your shoulder at all times, and you'll keep out of trouble.
- If it has ANYTHING remotely MEDICAL around it, advertising, or something else, then it's also time to "nope" out of there - again, pickle-pills, but also can be all sorts of B.S. home remedy's for cancer, "diabeetus", E.D., and other problems. There's so much horseshit out there on the internet that you might as well go looking in a pasture for such things and touch some grass.
- If it looks like it caters to SPECIFIC, MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES (even if you yourself are that one), then I would question it - I don't want to make this political, but it seems to me the majority of the malicious marketing and "all-in-one-solutions" are aimed at Republicans. But I've seen some democrat stuff too, and generally, regardless of ideology, you'll probably fall for it if you're stupid enough. So I'm suspicious of almost any advertisement that features celebrities like: Chuck Norris, Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons, Joe Rogan, that InfoWars guy, Donald J. Trump, or Mike LIndell. Same thing if you have Taylor Swift telling you you won a PS5 or get a message on YouTube that SMG SoundStudios gifted you a Gibson Flying Vee guitar....total horseshit. Doesn't matter your affiliation, just that you're stupid enough to click the link.
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