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Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Android

4•motbus3•4h ago
Hello folks. I want to know if this is something only happening to me.

I noticed on the past few days something weird going on with Google feed on Android (when you swipe left from home main screen)

I started receiving deceiving news with some "shocking" headlines like: "Contagious cancer found in fresh water fish". Android says it was published by "Forbes" but the icon is weird. That caught my attention and I used share button to check the URL and for my suprise the target link is "discover.aigc/?id=.........." (I removed the number just in case)

I used some search engines and I found no relevant related domain. Pinging the domain also returns nothing.i tried accessing it from an isolated environment and the domain seems really offline now.

I'm sure I saw other suspicious links, some had related titles some did not.

It does look like a clickbait based campaign for something "fishy" (pun intended).

I should have taken notes of the other news and domains which i crossed paths with but I did not because at first I thought it would be some mistake or unintentional but it has been so frequent that I could not ignore.

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