{"id":4775,"date":"2020-09-29T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2020-09-29T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:12:27","slug":"you-made-5-billionth-search-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4775","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You made 5 billionth search&#8221; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Worldometer&#8217;s coronavirus page<\/a>, it would redirect me to some stupid scam web site saying &#8220;you made 5 billionth search&#8221;. It happened only one one of my devices, the one given to me by my employeer, and the one I least expected to be infected, since I use it strictly for work purposes.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out nothing was wrong with the device: it&#8217;s a targeted ad on the site itself that did it. The solution was to change my Google Ads ID in the settings (Settings -> Privacy -> Ads -> Reset advertising Id on Android).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was going to Worldometer&#8217;s coronavirus page, it would redirect me to some stupid scam web site saying &#8220;you made 5 billionth search&#8221;. It happened only one one of <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4775\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}