▲ 624 ▼ Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 202 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SirLeToet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child) Having an adblocker is basic security. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] OriginalTangle@feddit.org 1 point 2 weeks ago* I forgot to mention that this was on a freshly installed osx. I had just pulled Firefox and was looking for the homebrew website. Google was the default search. I normally have it set to the duck or qwant but I just hadn't come around do it yet. I also never click on the sponsored links as a matter of principle but I was in a hurry and I was getting sloppy. But was always because I didn't want them to have even more money, not because I thought those links could be harmful. They only have to be successful once... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OriginalTangle@feddit.org 1 point 2 weeks ago* I forgot to mention that this was on a freshly installed osx. I had just pulled Firefox and was looking for the homebrew website. Google was the default search. I normally have it set to the duck or qwant but I just hadn't come around do it yet. I also never click on the sponsored links as a matter of principle but I was in a hurry and I was getting sloppy. But was always because I didn't want them to have even more money, not because I thought those links could be harmful. They only have to be successful once... permalink fedilink source parent