In Firefox about:config switching network.IDN_show_punycode to true could HELP spotting these kind of scams. But I believe that, in the end, once it's showing in Google results, it's game over.
Ads in search result are looking close enough to regular search result for people to just trust it and click.
The Windows 11 announcement is what made me transition to Ubuntu in the last few weeks. So far, I made the transition on 4 out of 5 of my windows PC.
It's far from smooth enough to become mainstream (with ubuntu at least.)
A few example: Steam wouldn't launch on my PC with an Nvidia card. (At to install some x86 package to make it work).
File sharing just didn't work at all without manually edit the smb.conf file.
Ubuntu randomly ignore my router DNS settings. All my self-hosted stuff requiring local DNS randomly stops working unless I force ubuntu to use my own DNS server.
Some games just don't work on any of my PCs (even if they are gold/platinum in protondb).
And many more stuff that works out of the box with windows. Overall, despite the issues, the experience is still positive and i'm not going back.
Fuck you patterns are everywhere on the web nowaday.
Some of the most annoying to me:
Twitch trying to discourage the use of the embedded player/non official players (like VLC) by replacing the content by a fullscreen purple picture asking you to watch on twitch.tv.
Reddit trying to force mobile user to use the reddit app as soon as the content is marked NSFW.
Instagram forcing me to login to view pictures.
Twitter asking me to see who someone is following.
Another one is the "can I help you" chat box that pops up.
Intercom and the likes.
Thinking about making a Chrome plugin that intentionally asks some nonsense questions programmatically in the background to waste their time and disincentivize that behavior.
(To be clear, I love having chat channels for sales and support, just NOT unsolicited "Can I help you" popups.)
