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              1. A brief story about an ad. For some reason this new 'omg your socks are so tight YOU GONNA DIE' ad has been following me around the web lately. So being me I was like... I wonder where they stole that image from because there's no way they made it themselves.
                oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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              So I copy the image URL from the native unit it is in, easy enough to pull down.
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            And lo and behold it isn't original. Nor does it have anything to do with heart attacks. Some poor person shot himself by accident and wrote about what happened afterwords in 2008 - negligentdischarge.com/updates.html
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          Anyway I clicked through the ad and guess what... the landing page was stolen from our friends and yours EverQuote. You can tell because it has the same layout and ridiculous 'put the legal gobldygook here' footer.
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        You can check it out at https://hearthealthmadesimple (dot) com/D184/ for yourself. It's trying to sell me something to do by Omega and is apparently sponsored by this dude whose YouTube channel hasn't seen an update in 6 years youtube.com/user/DrSamWalters/videos
        OpenGraph image for youtube.com/user/DrSamWalters/videos
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      I don't know, maybe there's a kit to make fraud news sites to sell products floating out there and both EverQuote and 'PhysioTru' just happened to both use it. But it was fun to see how little creativity and work is involved here.
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    And that's the story of how a number of major news sites hosted ads that used illegally stolen images from a site about LITERALLY SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT to link to a bullshit fake news website that itself was ripped off for a product that is itself quite dubious.
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      It's like a modern parable.
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        Also, fun fact, Dr Walters is a NMD which stands for... Naturopathic Medical Doctors.
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          I think one of the best things about this completely awful landing page is that even if I wanted to buy the Omega Whatever (I think that's what it is selling?) I can't even find a place to buy anything or convert to a customer.
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            Fun fact this isn't the first time they've tried a terrible landing page. This one is loooooooong. Why do scammy companies do this? Who reads to the end of this? https://hearthealthytip (dot) com/E005/transcript/default.asp
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