So basically Pew is using garbage adware that pops up an intrusive popup that sc...

avalys · 2025-03-26T18:45:55 1743014755

The article says the popup which caused this issue was used to display survey instructions, not ads.

shadowgovt · 2025-03-26T20:03:04 1743019384

They're probably using an ad network to emit spot-surveys where the ads would show up, although details unclear from the article.

(... honestly, how else will they gather survey data? It's not like they can harass people in the malls Americans don't go to anymore).

shadowgovt · 2025-03-26T20:02:00 1743019320

Google Translate turning a non-word in a source language into an unrelated word in the target language is an old, known misbehavior. I don't think LLMs changed anything there.