abuse

10 Overrated Games That Abuse Our Nostalgia
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing sometimes. It can cause us to feel like our favorite games from the past are better than they actually were. Video games should be able to impress us on their own merits, rather than relying on our memories of the “glory days” of playing our favorite games on the…

How fraudsters abuse Google Forms to spread scams
The form and quiz-building tool is a popular vector for social engineering and malware. Here’s how to stay safe. 23 Apr 2025 • , 5 min. read When Google enters a particular market, it often means bad news for the incumbents. So it was with Google Forms, the tech giant’s form and quiz-building tool that…

Getting out of a manual site reputation abuse penalty and continuing business as usual – recleudo.com
We’ve already seen how Finixio/Clickout’s assets were hit with serious penalties in the days following Google’s algorithm update. I have no idea whether those penalties were manual, or algorithmically applied, though I have a hunch they were manual. But they destroyed the ranking of pages that funnelled, collectively, millions of visits a month into a…