Singapore tells its people: Go forth and block those ads
in a public service announcement from the FBI at the end of last year, surely to the dismay of internet publishers. Especially reputable internet publishers who have an in-house team that polices the ads shown, cough, splutter.
Google is one org leading a charge that would dampen ad blockers at least. The Chocolate Factory keepsto drop support for Manifest v2, the powerful API used by content-blocking extensions to filter out crap from pages, and replace it with Manifest v3, an interface that limits the amount of damage a bad or malicious extension can do. V3 also happens to affect the way legit extensions work, which has sparked some upset.
The government has made efforts to squash scams with a program called ScamShield, ongoing since 2020. The program uses a mobile app that checks calls from unknown numbers against a Singapore Police Force database and blocks numbers known to be affiliated with scams.
GovTech said by August 2022 it had blocked around 200,000 scam calls and detected 3.5 million scam messages. This year, it is expanding the program to protect against the weaponization of Meta-owned WhatsApp. Users can upload screenshots or copy and paste suspicious links into a ScamShield chatbot to check its legitimacy.
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