I suspect that the HN crowd is somehow insulated from the river of crap and frau...

array_key_first · 2026-05-09T01:18:16 1778289496

99% of the crap and fraud comes from ads, aka Google. Thanks, Google. Just run an ad blocker, there goes most of the scams you'll see.

Also putting QR codes before every webpage doesn't make the web less shitty. It obviously makes it more shitty. And this will 100% be used for fraud. Phishing websites can get away with QR codes now, great.

intended · 2026-05-09T08:09:59 1778314199

> the internet experience for a majority of the population

> Just run an ad blocker,

This reads as "I am fine, so you should be fine". The median internet user has a phone so chock full of cancerous malware.

And if a tool gets good enough to interfere with tech firms ad revenue, they find ways to stop it. See whats happening to ad blockers.